This statistic represents the breakdown of French people giving up a treatment prescribed by a conventional doctor to replace it by an alternative medicine treatment in 2019. It shows that the majority of respondents, 74 percent, had not given up following a treatment prescribed by a doctor to replace it with an alternative medicine treatment.
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.
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Have you ever stopped taking a treatment prescribed by a doctor and replaced it with an alternative medicine?
* This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Vous est-il déjà arrivé de renoncer à prendre un traitement prescrit par un médecin pour le remplacer par un traitement de médecine douce?"
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Harris Interactive. (November 15, 2019). Have you ever stopped taking a treatment prescribed by a doctor and replaced it with an alternative medicine? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 08, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101910/medicine-non-conventional-perception-france-replacement-treatment/
Harris Interactive. "Have you ever stopped taking a treatment prescribed by a doctor and replaced it with an alternative medicine?." Chart. November 15, 2019. Statista. Accessed July 08, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101910/medicine-non-conventional-perception-france-replacement-treatment/
Harris Interactive. (2019). Have you ever stopped taking a treatment prescribed by a doctor and replaced it with an alternative medicine?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 08, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101910/medicine-non-conventional-perception-france-replacement-treatment/
Harris Interactive. "Have You Ever Stopped Taking a Treatment Prescribed by a Doctor and Replaced It with An Alternative Medicine?." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 Nov 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101910/medicine-non-conventional-perception-france-replacement-treatment/
Harris Interactive, Have you ever stopped taking a treatment prescribed by a doctor and replaced it with an alternative medicine? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101910/medicine-non-conventional-perception-france-replacement-treatment/ (last visited July 08, 2025)
Have you ever stopped taking a treatment prescribed by a doctor and replaced it with an alternative medicine? [Graph], Harris Interactive, November 15, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101910/medicine-non-conventional-perception-france-replacement-treatment/
