Alternative Medicine: New Ways to Treat Diseases and Therapies

Complementary and Alternative Medicine to Treat Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 in Southern Iran

Unorthodox alternative therapies marketed to treat Lyme disease.

BACKGROUND Some patients with medically unexplained symptoms or alternative medical diagnoses suspect that they chronically suffer from the tick-borne infection Lyme disease. These patients are commonly targeted by providers of alternative therapies. This study was designed to identify and characterize the range of unorthodox alternative therapies advertised to patients with a diagnosis of Lyme...

Dual purpose: some cancer therapies used to treat autoimmune diseases.

In July 1917, when German forces first used mustard gas (sulfur mustard) as a chemical warfare agent against British troops in Ypres, Belgium, no one would have predicted that any good would come of it. The first hint came in 1919, when E.B. and H.D. Krumbhaar reported that victims of mustard gas poisoning had low white blood cell counts and atrophy of the bone marrow and lymphatic tissues. The...

Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Liver Diseases

Alternative and complementary therapies for liver disease are undergoing a rapid development in the fields of theoretical research, laboratory study, and clinical practice. However, their safety, efficacy, and mechanisms of action remain insufficiently understood and even controversial. And incidences of many types of liver disease are currently rising. So there is an urgent need for the clarif...

Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Inflammatory Diseases

Copyright © 2016 Xiang Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Many diseases have been demonstrated to associate with acute or chronic inflammation, such as rheumatoid arthritis , Alzheimer's disease, depression...