Homeopathy Naturopathy Osteopathy Chiropractic Ayurveda and “Conventional”

Practitioner Update

ternative practitioners hold that the individual has the capacity to maintain health and that people get sick when they are out of balance with their environment or society. Alternative medical practices typically address a spiritual component of health and illness largely ignored in conventional medicine. Because of the increasing acceptance of alternative medical practices, managed care organ...

Use of non-orthodox and conventional health care in Great Britain.

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of patients using non-orthodox health care and their pattern of use of conventional health care with respect to a particular problem. DESIGN Postal survey of all 2152 practitioners of acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, and osteopathy identified from 11 national professional association registers. Patients attending a representative sa...

Perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine amongst medical students in Singapore--a survey.

BACKGROUND In view of the current upsurge of interest in, practice of, and research into, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) worldwide and locally, a survey was conducted to gauge the understanding, interest and knowledge of CAM amongst medical students in a local university. METHODS A total of 555 first to fifth year medical students completed a questionnaire (54% response rate) de...

Selling Falsehoods? A Cross-Sectional Study of Canadian Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture Clinic Website Claims Relating to Allergy and Asthma AUTHORS

Biomedicine: A springboard for Integrative Medicine

He suggests Ayurveda, Yoga Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) module to be introduced for MBBS course and the relevant biomedical subjects to be taught to AYUSH graduates. It raises two important issues. • AYUSH is like a cocktail. Unless crosstalk occurs between the ingredients of AYUSH, AYUSH module is not conceivable • Medicine is an applied discipline. Any knowledge area, unl...