Complementary and alternative medicines patients are talking about: melatonin.

Use of alternative medicines by allergic patients in Turkey.

BACKGROUND Although complementary and alternative medicines are frequently used in Turkey, no studies with large series have yet been published. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to determine the prevalences of the use of various types of complementary and alternative medicines in patients with asthma, seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) and chronic urticaria (CU) and the relationship between the use of the...

Temperament determination for melatonin: a bridge from Iranian traditional to modern sleep medicine.

History acknowledged Ibn Sina, or Avicenna, the author of the highly skilled textbook of medicine "Al-Qanun Fi Al-Tibb" or "The Canon of Medicine", as one of the greatest physicians in medicine. According to this medical textbook, the explanation of the existence of a cold temperament for sleep was that during sleep hours, people tended to have a movement of the nature of the body toward the in...

بررسی فراوانی استفاده از طبّ مکمّل و جایگزین در بیماران مبتلا به دیابت نوع 2 مراجعه کننده به درمانگاه غدد بیمارستان ولایت قزوین، در سال 1391

  Complementary alternative medicine has been noticed by many patients, particularly with chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus. Present study was conducted to estimate frequency of use of complementary alternative medicine among diabetic patients .   The studied patients were randomly selected from whom referred to endocrinology clinic in a university teaching hospital in Qazvin city, Iran...

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: lycopene.

A follow-up survey of the use of complementary and alternative medicines by surgical patients.

This study investigated the use of complementary and alternative medicines by surgical patients at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver. Elective surgical outpatients were randomly surveyed with anonymous self-report questionnaires during day-surgery admission about alternative medicines taken during the 2 weeks before surgery; 496 of 500 questionnaires were completed and r...