Doctors Encouraged to Use Alternative Medicine
WEDNESDAY, 26 DECEMBER 2007
In the recently concluded annual Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine organized by the University of Chicago’s Tang Center of Herbal Medicine Research and the Mayo Clinic, doctors were encouraged to include alternative medicine to conventional treatments.
Brent Bauer, a director from the Mayo Clinic, said alternative medicine is a “supplement to what the doctor is doing; the patient is working together with the doctor in a partnership.”
Here are some of the alternative remedies doctors are closely looking at:
- Weight Loss - Chitosan, chromium, conjugated linoleic acid and calcium
- Heart Disease - A Mediterranean-style diet
- Irritable-Bowel Syndrome - Exercise, probiotics, peppermint oil and ginger
- Stress - Yoga, acupuncture, massage, spirituality, meditation, music therapy and hypnotism
- Smoking Cessation - Hypnotism, chocolate, paced-breathing meditation
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