Table 3.

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Personal Experience with and Perceived Effectiveness of Alternative Therapies.

Alternative Medical Therapy	Personal Experience				Consider Treatment Effective^*
Alternative Medical Therapy	MD	PhD	Other	Total	MD	PhD	Other	Total
Fitness and exercise	57	54	70	58	100	92	93	98
Nutrition and diet	55	50	80	57	98	96	88	95
Prayer/spiritual healing	33	31	55	36	84	80	91	84
Counseling or psychotherapy	40	23	30	33	100	91	100	98
Herbal medicine	27	31	40	30	65	87	88	77
Emotional support groups	32	17	30	27	96	100	83	95
Meditation	25	29	30	27	84	86	100	87
Massage therapy	23	19	55	26	88	89	91	89
Biofeedback	20	15	25	19	87	86	80	85
Chiropractic	13	15	30	16	70	57	83	70
Cultural/folk medicine	13	15	30	16	90	100	67	87
Acupuncture	12	13	25	14	89	83	40	75
Acupressure	8	10	25	11	83	60	80	75
Guided imagery	9	13	15	11	86	83	67	81
Music therapy	11	13	10	11	88	83	100	88
Traditional Chinese medicine	7	17	15	11	80	63	67	69
Tai chi	8	8	20	10	83	75	75	79
Hypnotherapy	12	4	10	9	78	100	0	69
Ayurvedic medicine	5	10	10	8	75	100	100	91
Homeopathic medicine	5	8	15	8	75	100	67	82
Megavitamin therapy	8	6	10	8	33	33	100	45
Aromatherapy	7	2	15	6	100	100	100	100
Chelation therapy	5	0	10	4	100	0	100	100
Therapeutic touch	4	2	10	4	100	100	100	100
Colon therapy	4	0	5	3	67	0	100	75
Dance/movement therapies	3	2	10	3	100	100	100	100
Macrobiotic diet	3	2	5	3	50	100	0	50
Reiki	1	0	10	2	100	0	50	67
Bioelectromagnetics	3	0	0	1	50	0	0	50
Naturopathic medicine	0	0	5	1	0	0	100	100

Note: Therapies are listed in order of percentage of total respondents with personal experience.
* The percentages given for effectiveness reflect only those respondents who have had personal experience with that therapy.