By Jeffrey S. Levin, Wayne B. Jonas
4 out of ten sufferers visited a complementary and replacement drugs (CAM) practitioner final year--Your sufferers! necessities of Complementary and substitute drugs will give you the data you must comprehend this phenomenon. This useful resource brings jointly today's major CAM researchers and practitioners to supply the reader insights into the social and medical foundations of CAM, the protection and efficacy of CAM items and practices, and overviews of 20 known CAM modalities. necessities of Complementary and replacement drugs is helping you tell, train, and deal with sufferers who're attracted to or at present utilizing CAM. half I, Social and clinical Foundations of CAM, discusses the heritage, ethics, and medical research of CAM. half II discusses the protection of many CAM items and practices, together with herbs, nutritional and dietary items, and homeopathy. half III presents overviews of 20 universal CAM modalities, together with Ayurvedic medication, conventional chinese language drugs, and Naturopathy. Today's healthiness care practitioners desire new wisdom and abilities to successfully deal with sufferers who're utilizing or contemplating CAM. necessities of Complementary and substitute medication is your essential resource for knowing CAM and its impression in your perform. steered within the Brandon/Hill chosen checklist of print books and journals for the small scientific library - April 2 hundred
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