With the development of the use of complementary medicine in the world and especially in Iran, more attention is increasingly being given to different schools of natural medicine. One of the schools in which hygiene and treatment is the centre of attention is that of the Iranian Traditional Medicine. Fortunately, this is being given considerable attention by Iranian authorities. One of the diff...

ing." The following are the personal impressions of the writer who is not a kabiraj but a practitioner of Western medicine, from his study of Ayurvedic books :? The Ayurvedic System of Medicine.?Anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, bacteriology, surgery, midwifery, hygiene and jurisprudence?in all these departments the modern Western system is decidedly superior. There remain the ...

With the development of the use of complementary medicine in the world and especially in Iran, more attention is increasingly being given to different schools of natural medicine. One of the schools in which hygiene and treatment is the centre of attention is that of the Iranian Traditional Medicine. Fortunately, this is being given considerable attention by Iranian authorities. One of the diff...

Jaroslaw R. Romaniuk, Thomas E. Dick, Krzysztof E. Kowalski, and Anthony F. DiMarco Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland; Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brecksville; and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleve...

1Department Ophthalmology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA 2School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW 2751, Australia 3National Institute for Complementary Medicine (NICM), Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW 2751, Australia 4Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 3...

1Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; 2Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China; 3Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; 4Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; and 5Depa...

1Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA 2Division of Phytotherapeutics andMetabolic Endocrinology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science,TheMSUniversity of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat 390002, India 3School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2751, Australia...

1Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11501, Taiwan 2Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan 3Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 4School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2751, Australia 5NICM Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, ...

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Broadly conceptualized, the term “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) refers to treatments not considered to be standard to the current practice of Western medicine. “Complementary” refers to the use of these techniques in combination with conventional approaches, whereas “alternative” refers to their use in lieu of conventional practices. Of course, many treatments and techniques (e....