Complementary medicine is a group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine.
An example of a complementary therapy is using aromatherapy to help lessen a patient’s discomfort following surgery.
What is Complementary Medicine?
Other mind-body techniques
Mind-body medicine uses a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind’s capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms.
Other mind-body techniques are still considered CAM, including meditation, prayer, mental healing, and therapies that use creative outlets such as art, music, or dance.
Is this therapy part of a clinical trial?
Some,therapies may interfere with standard treatment or may be harmful when used with conventional treatment.
What benefits can be expected from this therapy?
Do the known benefits outweigh the risks? | What side effects can be expected?
Will the therapy interfere with conventional treatment?
Bioelectromagnetic therapy
1.Biofield therapies are intended to affect energy fields that purportedly surround.
Some forms of energy therapy manipulate biofields by applying pressure and/or manipulating the body
2.Bioelectromagnetic-based therapies involve the unconventional use of electromagnetic fields
Biologically based therapies
Biologically based therapies in CAM use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, and vitamins.
Some examples include dietary supplements, 3 herbal products, and the use of other so-called natural but as yet scientifically unproven therapies (for example, using shark cartilage to treat cancer).
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Mind-body medicine uses a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind’s capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms.
Other mind-body techniques are still considered CAM, including meditation, prayer, mental healing, and therapies that use creative outlets such as art, music, or dance.
Manipulative and body-based methods
Examples of alternative medical systems that have developed in Western cultures include homeopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine. Examples of systems that have developed in non-Western cultures include traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Manipulative and body-based methods in CAM are based on manipulation and/or movement of one or more parts of the body.
What is Alternative Medicine?
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Alternative medicine includes dietary supplements, megadose vitamins, herbal preparations, special teas, massage therapy, magnet therapy, and spiritual healing.
Complementary and alternative medicine therapies fall into five major categories, or domains
Children and the Future
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Newborns are particularly vulnerable and children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases, many of which can be effectively prevented or treated.
Family Life – Health Management
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Oral Health
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