In November 1991 the US news magazine Time ran a cover story that examined the phenomenon of patients turning their backs on mainstream Western medicine to seek alternative therapies, including acupuncture, reflexology, hypnosis, Ayurvedic medicine and many more.
以美國來說，一九九一年十一月，美國時代雜誌以封面故事探討病人由西方主流醫學出走，尋求其他療法的現象，這些另類療法中包括了針灸、腳底按摩、催眠、印度傳統植物精油療法等等。