Thirteen follies and fallacies about alternative medicine

Thirteen follies and fallacies about alternative medicine.

T use of alternative medicine (AM)—treatments such as herbs or massage therapy—has long been a part of healthcare in many regions of the world “to complement mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy or by diversifying the conceptual frameworks of medicine” [1]. What AM cannot do is replace conventional treatment, particularly when it com...

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: black cohosh.

OCTOBER 2005 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER 5 • CLINICAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY NURSING CDR Colleen O. Lee, RN, MS, AOCN ®, is a practice assessment program manager in the Offi ce of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. (Mention of specifi c products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of...

Complementary and alternative medicine: what is it all about?

A number of health-related interventions--from widespread therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy and yoga, to less well-known modalities such as Feldenkrais, iridology, reflexology and reiki--have increasingly come under the general heading of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). A few, such as biofeedback, chiropractic and physical therapy, are considered conventio...

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: lycopene.

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: PC-SPES.

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/05.CJON.113-114 PC-SPES is an herbal supplement containing eight Chinese herbs (see Table 1). PC stands for prostate cancer, and spes is Latin for hope. PC-SPES was formulated according to traditional Chinese medicine principles involving ingredients that may counteract cytotoxic agents, minimize toxicity, and reduce the development of drug resistance in targe...