The World Health Organization recognizes traditional medicine as a vital health-care resource in developing countries and has encouraged governments to adopt policies to officially acknowledge and regulate the practice of traditional medicine. However, in many countries, including Cameroon, policy makers are reluctant to accept traditional medicine, and there is a critical lack of cooperation b...

When one first discovers a book such as this, the naturally spontaneous and optimistic impression that arises is that a serious, top-level cooperation among non-conventional medicine experts and university researchers is finally getting under way in Italy, far from any sort of conflict of interests. And if one further considers that the results of this work have been acclaimed by a leading NCM/...

Almost anything that is swallowed in pill or potion form that is not a licensed medicine is, by default, legally classified as a dietary supplement. The present paper is an overview of supplement use and is intended to provide a logical framework for their discussion. Five major supplement categories are identified: essential micronutrients; other metabolites that have vitamin-like roles; natur...