An opinion poll commissioned by Time showed that 30 % of the US residents surveyed had tried some form of unconventional therapies. The magazine estimated annual national expenditure on alternative medicine at US $ 27 billion.
時代雜誌的民調顯示，百分之三十的美國民眾曾接受另類療法，估計一年花費的金額高達二百七十億美金。