Natural medicines and diabetes have something in common: millions of people have diabetes and millions use natural medicines. Not surprisingly, many diabetes patients are users of natural medicines. In fact, some surveys show that about 60% of patients with diabetes use some form of alternative medicine.17464 In some populations, such as southwest Native Americans, use of natural medicines and ...

Gastroenterological reflux disease and functional dyspepsia are usually treatable using Western medical practices. Nonetheless, some cases present with intractable symptoms that are not amenable to these therapies. Treatment with kampo, a traditional Japanese medicine, recently has been proposed as an alternative therapy for use in combination with the Western practices. In general, traditional...

Traditional Chinese medicines are one of the most ancient medicines which are in use since long back. It has potential to cure large variety of diseases. Different variety of herbs as well as techniques such as acupuncture, moxibustion etc. are being used nowadays. Scientist are continuously looking forward to develop extracts from such plants using different ancient formulas to cure dreadful d...

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) has become a common skin disease that requires systematic and comprehensive treatment to achieve adequate clinical control. Traditional Chinese medicines and related treatments have shown clinical effects for AD in many studies. But the systematic reviews and meta-analyses for them are lacking. OBJECTIVE The systematic review and meta-analysis based on the Pr...

All Portuguese community pharmacies have a compounding laboratory and minimum equipment for the preparation of nonsterile (traditional) compounded medicines, but a few community pharmacies specialize in compounding. At Farmácia Lordelo, the most frequently dispensed compounded medicines are oral liquids for pediatrics and multi-drug, semi-solid preparations for dermatology patients. The majorit...

The enormously profitable complementary medicines, dietary supplements and traditional medicines markets are largely unregulated internationally and South Africa. Attempts to ensure that consumers are not exposed to harmful or ineffective products have met with varying success around the world.

BACKGROUND Many patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection use traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines and other practices to combat the disease, with some also using prescribed antiretroviral therapy provided by the public health sector. This study aimed to establish the awareness of public sector biomedical health care providers on the use of traditional, complementary...

Mineral arsenicals have long been used in traditional medicines for various diseases, yet arsenic can be highly toxic and carcinogenic. Arsenic in traditional medicines typically comes from deliberate addition for therapeutic purposes, mainly in the form of mineral arsenicals, including orpiment (As2S3), realgar (As4S4), and arsenolite (contains arsenic trioxide, As2O3). Inorganic arsenic is no...