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Mon 10 Oct 2000Promises they couldn't keepTen years ago, announcing that you were off to the osteopath, the herbalist or the reflexologist would have marked you down as a dabbler in the esoteric. Now complementary medicine is no longer seen as a fringe therapy.Just look at the figures: 60 per cent of Germans, over 50 per cent of Americans and 30 per cent of people in the UK use or have used some form of complementary therapy.