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Complementary and Alternative Therapy for Epilepsy
Much Less Than Meets the Eye
E. S. Roach, MD
Arch Neurol. 2005;62:1475-1476.
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Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.
Henry G. Felsen
Alternative medicine includes an array of treatments that are often rooted in mysticism and united by their lack of rigorous scientific validation. Examples of alternative treatments include herbal therapy, acupuncture, therapeutic touch, aromatherapy, magnetic therapy, and biofeedback. Complementary medicine is the use of these alternative methods as an adjunct to standard medical treatments.1 As Scheller2 points out, one reason to study alternative and complementary therapies is that they are being actively promoted and our patients are already using them. And if 44% of the patients with epilepsy employ some form of alternative or complementary medicine,3 we need to know something about what they are doing.
What distinguishes alternative and complementary techniques from those of conventional scientific medicine? The distinction cannot be based . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliations: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
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