Alternative Therapies: Alternative Medicine

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Alternate therapies are a good way to find effective cures to common as well as unusual ailments that might plague us. People resort top alternate therapies when chemicals and medicines prove ineffective is alleviating their pain and illness. While there are several alternate therapies that are practiced by professional therapists all across the world, magnetic therapy is known to be the most scientific and popular form of alternate healing. Magnetic therapy is a natural and non-evasive therapy that is believed to have been practiced by ancient Greeks and Egyptians thousands of years ago.

Magnetic therapy involves the application of a temporary magnetic field comprising electromagnetic devices or fixing permanent static magnet to specific

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