Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Diabetes

Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Diabetes 2014

1Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11501, Taiwan 2Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan 3Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 4School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2751, Australia 5NICM Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, ...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Diabetes

Although diabetes was identified by a Greek physician, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, about 2,000 years ago, this old disease remains incurable. Diabetes is characterized by insulin deficiency, insulin resistance, and aberrant glucose, protein, and lipid metabolism. Genetic and environmental factors are the primary causes of diabetes. It is estimated that about 300 million people globally are afflicte...

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

The health system approach to the complementary and alternative medicine

Since different nations have emphasized reusing their traditional methods in medicine over the last two decades, and the World Health Organization’s recent approach has also focused on restoring traditional medicine in different parts of the world, those methods that are more compatible with the popular culture of a country should be considered. In our country, the traditional medicine, with it...

Medicalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a Historical-Critical Analysis

Medicalization, in the sense of expansion of medicine in different aspects of human life and ultimately the transformation of medicine into a tool of social control and domination, is a common interpenetration in the literature. This concept, since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, has been an exclusive critique of modern medicine, meaning that branch of medicine based on biomedical p...