How alternative is alternative medicine?

Complementary and alternative medicine: how safe is it?

Alternative Perspectives: How Chinese Medicine Understands Hypercholesterolemia

Treatment of cardiovascular disease, albeit under the auspices of other clinical descriptors to those described in western biomedicine, has a long history in China. Chinese Medicine (CM) is guided by unique philosophical underpinnings and theories. There are differences in how the heart is conceptualised traditionally in CM compared to biomedicine. This paper focusses on how hypercholesterolemi...

An alternative to alternative medicine.

Both sides in this argument assume that the treatment recommended by the practitioner is the only active ingredient in the consultation. Placebo, having no active ingredient, is offered by one side, and accepted by the other as a term of abuse. Neither side considers that personalities, words, or behaviour have a legitimate effect on outcomes, or that many questions arising in consultations wil...

alternative medicine and asthma, what is the evidence?

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Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine techniques have been successfully used either in conjunction with traditional medicine or, on occasion, alone. These treatments are often described as holistic because both examination and treatment focus on the patient as a whole rather than being narrowly focused on treatment of a specific symptom. This holistic approach reduces the probability that treatment of one sympt...