Natural alternatives can help treat baby sniffles in absence of cold meds

Your 16-month-old baby has her first nasty cold of the season. But drugmakers have recalled the only remedy you know — infant cold and cough medicines — because of the danger of overdose.
Don’t panic. Although there is no cure, several natural therapies can stimulate your baby’s immune system to fight the virus.
• Encourage fluids, especially [...]

The beauty of tradition

Dozens of needles pierced Zhang Xing’s belly. In just a few months, the young man’s waistline has  shrunk  about 50 centimeters thanks to traditional acupuncture treatment.
Like Zhang, many people nowadays are looking to Chinese medicine practitioners for natural solutions to their beauty issues, such as weight and skin problems.
For three years, 26-year-old Zhang felt ashamed of [...]

Aromatherapy, massage healthier alternatives to drugs

Casie McNaughton
When taking pills and over-the-counter drugs seem too overwhelming, some simple practices such as aromatherapy and meditation may be the key to a healthy body, mind and soul.
 
When taking pills and over-the-counter drugs seem too overwhelming, some simple practices such as aromatherapy and meditation may be the key to a healthy body, mind [...]

Which Alternative Remedies Really Work?

When Dr. Andrew Weil, the alternative medicine guru, hurt his knee, he skipped pain relievers and went straight to acupuncture, reports CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen in her online column Empowered Patient. “It worked,’’ said Dr. Weil. “My knee felt much better.’’
Acupuncture is one of five alternative therapies highlighted by Ms. Cohen in a recent [...]

Alternative ways of treating an enlarged prostate

 By Drs. Kay Judge and Maxine Barish-Wreden
Q: My prostate is enlarged and my doctor wants to put me on medication to avoid surgery. Is there a more natural approach?
A: Prostate enlargement, or benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) as we say in the business, is very common in middle-aged and older men, especially in the Western [...]

Alternative Treatments That Work

It’s hard to decipher through all the hype about alternative medicine. How do we know what works and what doesn’t?
Well, CNN got the lowdown from experts in the field on which alternative treatments actually work for what.
Here are highlights:

Acupuncture for pain - Hands, down, this was the No. 1 recommendation from our panel of experts. [...]

Med student: Integrative medicine is ‘new way of healing’

Justin Laube is a second-year medical student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – In a recent column, Emily Breidbart, a second-year medical student at New York University School of Medicine, expressed concerns about her medical education and the frustrating health-care system she will soon enter.
What deeply troubled me was her passive viewpoint [...]

Doctor no help? There’s an alternative

From acupuncture to aromatherapy, hospitals offer health-care options
By Shari Rudavsky
Recognizing that good health does not always rest exclusively in the hands of mainstream physicians, Clarian West Medical Center soon will unveil a facility that offers a range of complementary medical therapies from acupuncture to nutritional counseling to yoga.
The Integrative Care Center marries the expertise of [...]

Evaluating your Options and Choosing Integrative Treatment

Thursday, 27 September 2007

It may seem that we have a long way to go before most people have access to truly integrative cancer treatment. Academic medical centers have not yet sufficiently integrated CAM services into their conventional care models. According to research by Dr. David Eisenberg and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School Osher [...]

Homeopathy users wouldn’t switch to conventional medicine

According to WHO, homeopathy is the 2nd largest system of medicine in the world and is experiencing an annual growth of around 20-25%. It is estimated that by 2017, the world homeopathy market would be equivalent to the current alternative healthcare market which is Rs.52,000 crore.  The research was conducted to gauge the potential of [...]