Traditional and Complementary Medicine: Where Are We?-Juniper Publishers
Juniper Publishers As physical fitness and healthy diet not very easy to obtain and maintain, interest in Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM) is growing wider day by day. There are lots of synonym terms globally, but Turkish Ministry of Health accepts TCM officially. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) divides TCM approaches into two main groups [1]: I. Natural products II. Mind and body practices Among natural products there are herbs, vitamins and minerals or dietary supplements. These are the most common approaches in USA as well as the other countries [2]. In the second group, there are yoga, chiropractice, acupuncture, etc. Besides these two groups, there are also some other practices such as homeopathy, nathuropathy and ayurveda. World Health Organization (WHO) promotes the interventions that both improves the quality and standardization and also facilitates the integration to health care systems [3]. WHO reports that in 80% of m...
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