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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
In 2012, nearly 24 milliion Americans, aged 12 and older, had abused an illicit drug, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.