Reckoning with Alternative Medicine

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

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...

Alternative Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the effect of Buteyko breathing techniques (BBT) in the management of asthma. Design: Prospective, blinded, randomised study comparing the effect of BBT with control classes in 39 subjects with asthma. The study was conducted from January 1995 to April 1995. Participants and setting: Subjects recruited from the community, aged 12 to 70 years, with asthma and substantial m...

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE FOR HORSES - EQUINE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - ARTICLE - AVMC Alternativevet

How sad, then, that they should so often be treated as working tools and as dispensable commodities. Happily, in contrast to this, most of those with horses who consult our clinic are those who care deeply for their equine companions and who work to fulfil all the obligations and responsibilities that ‘ownership’ brings. The result is not only that a great many horses are brought to our place (...

Getting to Grips with Alternative Medicine