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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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