Complementary and alternative medicine for functional gastrointestinal disorders

Complementary and alternative medicine for gastrointestinal disorders.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a growing area of public interest. With increasing numbers of patients using these modalities, it is essential that Western medical practitioners become familiar with the available CAM literature to facilitate better patient care. While the volume of CAM research in gastrointestinal disorders has increased, there are still few modalities for which...

Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Functional Gastrointestinal Diseases 2016

Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Functional Gastrointestinal Diseases

Copyright © 2015 Jiande D. Z. Chen 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. Functional gastrointestinal diseases (FGID) are common in the world and account for more than 40% of clinical visits to gastroenterology cli...

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...

Mood disorders and complementary and alternative medicine: a literature review

Mood disorders are a major public health problem and are associated with considerable burden of disease, suicides, physical comorbidities, high economic costs, and poor quality of life. Approximately 30%-40% of patients with major depression have only a partial response to available pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been used e...