Recently, overuse of steroids and immunosuppressive drugs has produced incurable dermatological health problems. Traditional medical approaches have been studied for alternative solutions. However, accessing relevant information is difficult given the differences in information for western medicine (WM) and traditional medicine (TM). Therefore, an integrated medical information infrastructure m...

Background Infertility has long been a common problem in our human history and still continues to be a problem in the modern era. Fortunately Western Medicine has developed various treatment methodologies ,especially the new assisted reproductive technology, which does increase the success rate . Despite this, nearly half of the couples among these who get treated by WM still fail conceive. The...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in the management of female infertility and on pregnancy rates compared with Western medical (WM) treatment and update previous meta-analyses. METHODS We searched the Medline and Cochrane databases until December 2013 for randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses investigating Chinese herbal medicine therapy for...

Objective: To explore the treatment strategies of early postoperative inflammatory small bowel obstruction (EPISBO). Methods: 35 cases of EPISBO patients, according to the different treatment methods, were retrospectively divided into traditional Western medicine treatment group (WM group) and the Integrative medicine treatment group (IM group); IM group, in addition to traditional therapy, use...

Endometriosis has become an increasingly common health condition of women worldwide. It is not only the main cause of severe pelvic pain, but also one of the most common causes of infertility, which has a significant impact on women’s quality of life. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a most effective and natural therapeutic treatment of endometriosis, while conventional Western medicine (W...

Objectives: This study aimed to find out the characteristics of patients with facial palsy based on National Health Insurance(NHI) statistical yearbook and provide information pertaining supplement Coverage NHI.Methods: Based data NHI between 2004 2021 for palsy(G51) obtained from Ministry Welfare, analyses were carried according distribution gender number patients, visits, reimbursed days, med...

BACKGROUND Portugal has a strong tradition of conventional western healthcare. So it provides a natural case study for the relationship between Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Western Medicine (WM). This work aims to test the relationship between CAM and WM users in the diagnosis and treatment stages and to estimate the determinants of CAM choice. METHODS The forth Portuguese Nat...

The aim of this study was to examine the perspectives on the options for the integration of western and traditional Korean medical services among three types of medical doctors with different disciplines in Korea. We surveyed and analyzed responses from 167 conventional Western medicine (WM), 135 traditional Korean medicine (KM), and 103 dual-licensed (DL) doctors who can practice both. All thr...

Aim. This study identifies existing definitions and approaches among China's integrative medicine (IM) experts and examines relationships with key characteristics distinguishing individual experts. Methods. Snowball sampling was used to select 73 IM experts for semistructured interviews. In this mixed methods study, we first identified definitions and approaches through analyzing core statement...

BACKGROUND This paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (WM) at TCM hospitals. METHODS Quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of China Health Statistical Yearbook and Extracts o...