Mind–Body Interventions is a term introduced formally in September 2000 by the United States National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), which is among twenty-seven organizations that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to denote one of five domains of medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered part of conventional medicine, and which are consequently considered to be within the purview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.