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respect to: pain relief, reduction of stiffness and increased physical function during treatment; modifications in the consumpti ...
Smoking cessation A Cochrane review for smoking cessation included 18 reports, with 20 trials, that compared acupuncture with va ...
A number of questions relating to the provision of complementary and alter- native medicine were asked in the survey. The respon ...
result was robust to sensitivity analysis. Cost per QALY dropped substan- tially when the analysis incorporated probable QALY di ...
Variants of acupuncture Acupressure Acupressure is a form of acupuncture in which fingers, thumbs and elbows are used to stimula ...
acupuncture and acupressure in its effects but uses a glowing wick instead of needles or fingertips as the source of stimulation ...
drugs of animal, vegetable and mineral origin, and includes no fewer than 8160 prescriptions. Secret recipes (also known as ‘pre ...
Categorisation of Chinese herbs Chinese herbs may be categorised according to: the four natures the five tastes the meridians. ...
Medicinal substances are combined to: increase therapeutic effectiveness by synergy reduce toxicity or adverse reactions accomm ...
Presentation When herbs are prescribed for individual patients the practitioner weighs out a day’s dosage of each herb and combi ...
Chinese patent medicines Pre-made formulae are available as pills, tablets, capsules, powders, alcohol extracts, water extracts, ...
preparation of decoction described above. They are not ‘patented’ in the western sense of the word because there are no exclusiv ...
Some examples of licensed Chinese herbal medicines are shown in Figure 6.11. Licensing of CHMs in Europe Most herbal medicines o ...
herbs and occasional substitution of toxic for safe species; illegal inclusion of prescription-only drugs or heavy metals in som ...
Medicine has provided a good model for such an arrangement through its Approved Suppliers scheme. Under SR an arrangement of thi ...
law has never been tested in the courts – the wider concerns about the lack of regulation of herbal medicines have put this issu ...
chemotherapy. A variety of Chinese medicinal herbs has been used for managing these side effects. A review by Zhang et al. has p ...
Intrinsic toxicity of herbs Some CHMs have already caused serious health problems in the UK and other developed countries and, d ...
properly trained practitioners are able to make fairly reliable checks, at least visually. Unrecognised contamination by other h ...
contain a toxin that can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain.^170 There are two species of senecio plants: Sene ...
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