Medicinas complementarias

Acupuntura

Fitoterapia

Homeopatía / Homeopathy

Historia de la Homeopatía / History of Homeopathy

Naturopatía

Asociación española de médicos naturistas

Quiropráctica

Asociación Española de Quiropráctica. Qué es, formación del quiropráctico, preguntas... etc. (ES)

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (US). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) conducts and supports basic and applied research and training and disseminates information on complementary and alternative medicine to practitioners and the public. Organized under the Director of the NIH, the NCCAM does not serve as a referral agency for various alternative medical treatments or individual practitioners. The NCCAM facilitates and conducts biomedical research.The NIH cautions users not to seek the therapies described on these pages without the consultation of a licensed health care provider. Inclusion of a treatment or resource on the NCCAM Web site does not imply endorsement by the NCCAM, the NIH, or the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The NCCAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index (CCI) consists of more than 180,000 bibliographic citations from 1966 to 1998. Citations were extracted from the National Library of Medicine’s Medline database. The citations were obtained using MeSH controlled vocabulary terms from the "alternative medicine" tree structure, and other selected MeSH terms.

The Alternative Medicine Home Page (US). The Alternative Medicine "Homepage is a jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies. In 1996, The National Library of Medicine and the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) Term Working Group, Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health classifies alternative medicine as an unrelated group of non-orthodox therapeutic practices, often with explanatory systems that do not follow conventional biomedical explanations.The National Library of Medicine's previous classification was non-orthodox therapeutic systems which have no satisfactory scientific explanation for their effectiveness. Others define it as medical interventions not taught at United States medical schools or not available at United States hospitals. Alternative therapies include, but are not limited to the following disciplines: folk medicine, herbal medicine, diet fads, homeopathy, faith healing, new age healing, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathy, massage, and music therapy".
 

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