• According to CNN one-half of all medical schools now offer courses in holistic health care.
• Almost one-third of American medical schools-among them Harvard, Yale, John's Hopkins, and Georgetown Universities-now offer coursework in holistic methods.
• There are five homeopathic hospitals in Great British National Service.
• Traditional Chinese medicine has been chosen by the World Health Organization for worldwide propagation to meet the heath care needs of the twenty-first century.
• One out of three drugs prescribed in Germany is an herb.
• The World Health Organization estimates that between 65 to 80 percent of the world's population (about 3 billion people) rely on holistic medicine as their primary form of health care.
• In 1993, American consumers spent almost $1.5 billion dollars on herbal remedies-ten times more than was spent on over-the-counter sleeping pills from grocery stores and drug stores.
• Worldwide, only 10 to 30 percent of people use conventional medicine, 70 to 90 percent use holistic medicine.
• Approximately $22 million of U.S. government money has already been spent on alternative medical research since 1992 at the National Institutes of Health and Public Health Services.
• The American Medical Association (AMA), in Resolution #514, "is encouraging its members to become better in-formed regarding holistic medicine and to participate in appropriate studies of it.
• Mutual of Omaha says it saves about $6.50 in covering non-standard (holistic) treatments.
• 74 percent of the American population, desire a more natural approach to health care.
• Of the one out of three Americans who say they have used holistic medicine techniques, 84 percent said they would use it again.
• The U.S. government sponsors the use of acupuncture in drug rehabilitation programs.
• One out of every ten Americans is under the care of a chiropractor.
• In 1991, Americans made more visits to unconventional health care providers (425 million) than to conventional doctors (388 million).
• One out of three Americans were using unconventional medicine in 1991.
• Americans spent almost $13.7 billion on unconventional health care in 1991.
• 75 percent of that $13.7 billion (above) was out of pocket.
• 12 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer alternative medicine as part of their health care compensation packages. That percentage was expected to increase to 18 percent by the end of 1996.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) A nationwide government survey of more than 31,000 adults on their use of complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) showed that 36 percent of U.S. adults use some form of CAM.