Commonly known as Alternative Medicine (AM) in the current literature, treatment of diseases by approaches other than those of allopathic or conventional medicine has feverishly caught on in the United States of America (USA) during the current decade. Public and political pressures on the government to address the escalating costs of health care under the conventional system, which incidentally cannot be afforded by over forty million Americans, finally resulted in the establishment of the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) early 1992 within the well-known National Institutes of Health (NIH). With an initial token budget of $ 2 million, the OAM was charged with examining and promoting the alternative therapeutic modalities from acupressure to acupuncture to yoga, a formidable task indeed, if the medical and scientific communities are to assess these modalities the same way as new treatments or procedures are viewed under the rigid guidelines of the U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).