Waiving alternative medicine due to the cost of consultations in France

This statistic represents the breakdown of French people renouncing alternative medicine treatments for financial reasons in 2019. This graph shows that one in two French people had already renounced alternative medicine consultations because of their cost.

Alternative medicine, also called complementary or integrative medicine among others, designates therapeutic practices residing outside classical medical science which originated from oriental, ancestral or innovative traditions. Among those alternative medicines, we can for example find acupuncture (from Chinese medicine), Ayurvedic medicine, herbal medicine, osteopathy or homeopathy.