Complementary Therapy Research Paper

Complementary therapy and alternative medicine has not been well interpreter by the public, according to edzard Ernst, MD phd, FRCP from university of Exeter, he said that a big problem is when journalist publish articles on newspapers they rarely do enough background research and lack full medical understanding. He also add poor telephone interviews were the journalist just want a quote that fits into their story. No all is a real alternative medicine, some are consider experimental and investigational, according to aetna.com evidence is the peer-revied published medical literature of their effectiveness. Here some few samples.
Acupressure, aromatherapy, aura healing, auto urine therapy, Hypnosis, intravenous vitamin c infusion, magnet therapy, music therapy, color therapy and many many more. …show more content…
today's modern western medicine is complex and expensive. Primary care physician has very little time to spend with each patient in consultation, (very true we are so limited on time at each doctor visit) When she/he diagnoses a serious or acute condition known to be amenable to modern treatment, the patient will usually be referred to an appropriate specialist, although some such problems can be handled effectively in primary care. When a chronic complaint is diagnosed it is often treated symptomatically with a prescription drug. And thus lack a close therapeutic relationship with a single doctor. Added to this is the fact that many conventional medical and surgical interventions, as well as effective synthetic drugs, and even some of herbal origin, produce in some patients troublesome and stressing side-effects witch may occasionally even have fatal consequences. Such adverse reactions are usually less common with complementary and alternative therapies. The benefit-risk ratio must be taken into