"Alternative" means outside the mainstream-of secondary status. As such, alternative therapies often represent a last hope for people who have been failed and abandoned by Western medicine.
看看近來社會風行的所謂「另類療法」吧，另類，也就是相對於主流，它的考量不過在其次地位，因此，常常只是被西醫放棄、藥石罔效病人眼中的最後一塊浮木。