Products that contain ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, homeopathic and some aromatherapy preparations are referred to as complimentary medicines.2 Other terms used to describe CAMs include natural medicine, non-conventional medicine, holistic medicine, and traditional medicine.3 

While CAMs can be purchased from not just pharmacies, but from supermarkets, and health food stores too1, it’s interesting to note that according to Tran et.al., “Patients often perceive pharmacy-stocked CAMs to be...