Previously, a number of world conferences have been arranged separately by the Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani and Siddha medical fraternities, but this conference will discuss important issues related to all these ‘Indian Systems of Medicine’ under one roof for the very fi rst time. Academicians, scientists, pharmaceutical company representatives, and policy makers from all fraternities wil...

Anthroposophically Extended Medicine (AEM) is a truly integrative healing system. AEM represents an expansion, not an alternative to conventional medicine. Its unique understanding of the interplay among physiological, soul and spiritual processes in healing and illness serves to bridge allopathy with naturopathy, homeopathy, functional/nutritional medicine and other healing systems.

Purpose Individualized combinations of therapeutic modalities and remedies are generally the rule in naturopathic practice with selection determined by the system’s principles and guidelines. With the wide variation in realworld use, evaluating the whole practice best assesses overall benefits and risks. Naturopathic doctors in Canada and the US in licensed jurisdictions receive accredited trai...

Complementary and AlternativeMedicine (CAM) remains a controversial topic. Despite its widespread use by patients [1], its provision by a large number of physicians and substantial student interest [2], [3], it is rarely taught by medical schools in Europe. By contrast, in the United States (US) 82 medical schools have included CAM-related content in their compulsory curriculum [4] and special ...

Breast cancer is the most frequent type of malignancy among women throughout Germany. The present analysis aimed to identify information needs and aspects of health literacy in women of working age newly diagnosed with breast cancer. PIAT is a prospective multicenter cohort study in which patients were asked about their information needs at 3 assessment points: postoperatively, after 10 weeks, ...

Our comment on the CMAJ editorial by Stanbrook2 is that naturopaths are not formal members of health teams that provide nutrition guidance; this is the role of dietitians. That physicians usually partner with dietitians, whether in the hospital or community setting, seems to have been totally overlooked in Stanbrook’s2 editorial. Similar results could have been achieved had dietitians provided ...

He suggests Ayurveda, Yoga Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) module to be introduced for MBBS course and the relevant biomedical subjects to be taught to AYUSH graduates. It raises two important issues. • AYUSH is like a cocktail. Unless crosstalk occurs between the ingredients of AYUSH, AYUSH module is not conceivable • Medicine is an applied discipline. Any knowledge area, unl...

This paper presents a case in which a chemical burn resulted from the use of garlic as a naturopathic medicine for knee pain.

As the world population and pollution are increasing day by we embracing to sickness. From ancient times till 18th century were following yoga naturopathy practices in everyday life. When industrial revolution started from have drastically changed our lifestyle, exercise, diet practices. We somehow forgotten this true health treasure given ancestors. Recent COVID-19 pandemic situation gave us a...