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The Efficacy of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Female Infertility
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2021 Apr 23;2021:6634309. doi: 10.1155/2021/6634309. eCollection 2021.ABSTRACTFemale infertility is a state of fertility disorder caused by multiple reasons. The incidence of infertility for females has significantly increased due to various factors such as social pressure, late marriage, and late childbirth, and its harm includes heavy economic burden, psychological shadow, and even marriage failure. Conventional solutions, such as hormone therapy, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and embryo transfer, have the limitations of unsatisfied obstetric outcomes and serious adverse events. Curren...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - May 14, 2021 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jiaxing Feng Jing Wang Yuehui Zhang Yizhuo Zhang Liyan Jia Dongqi Zhang Jiao Zhang Yanhua Han Shoujuan Luo Source Type: research

The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Facial Plastic Surgery
This article reviews recent literature on the use of CAM for skin treatment in an attempt to provide additional resource. To date, the evidence to support statistically significant symptom improvement with use of non-traditional therapies remains limited. While preliminary data supports essential oil therapy in some cases, the results of the studies investigating other CAM therapies (traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and homeopathy) have been mixed and inconclusive. [...] Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 333 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USAArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstr...
Source: Facial Plastic Surgery - November 8, 2021 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Authors: Luu, Neil N. Soldatova, Liuba Friedman, Oren Tags: Original Research Source Type: research

Indian Traditional Treatments for Psoriasis: A Critical Appraisal of Available Evidence Supporting Efficacy
AbstractPsoriasis is an immune-mediated chronic inflammatory skin disease with multifactorial etiology. Although many drugs are available in biomedicine for the treatment of psoriasis, these therapies are aimed at controlling the disease rather than a complete cure. In India, traditional systems of medicines like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, and homeopathy are practised for psoriasis. This review examines data from 17 selected studies supporting the clinical efficacy of medical management approaches from these systems using outcome indicators employed in clinical practice and research for psoriasis. All studies reported good i...
Source: Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine - July 12, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Complementary/Integrative Medicine for Pediatric Otitis Media
Complementary/integrative medicine can be used in treating otitis media, especially during the watchful waiting phase. Elimination of risk factors can be important. Products such as echinacea, xylitol, and probiotics may help in prevention. Herbal eardrop formulations can relieve symptoms in some patients. Other modalities such as homeopathy can lead to faster relief of symptoms in combination with conventional therapy. Chinese, Japanese, and other forms of traditional medicine have varying formulations with unclear safety, but initial results are promising. Most studies are limited by methodological failures and small sam...
Source: Otolaryngologic clinics of North America - September 7, 2022 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Ajay S. Nathan, Jessica R. Levi, Robert O ’Reilly Source Type: research

Prevalence, specific and non-specific determinants of complementary medicine use in Switzerland: Data from the 2017 Swiss Health Survey
by Delphine Meier-Girard, Emmanuelle L üthi, Pierre-Yves Rodondi, Ursula Wolf ObjectivesTo determine the prevalence of use of complementary medicine (CM) in Switzerland in 2017, its development since the 2012 Swiss Health Survey, and to examine specific and non-specific sociodemographic, lifestyle and health-related determinants of CM use as compared to determinants of conventional health care use. Materials and methodsWe used data of 18,832 participants from the cross-sectional Swiss Health Survey conducted by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office in 2017 and compared these data with those from 2012. We defined four CM ca...
Source: PLoS One - September 14, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Delphine Meier-Girard Source Type: research

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