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Alternative and complementary medicine: A look at the general culture

Community and Interculturality in Dialogue, 2023
This paper explores the world of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine from a multicultural perspective. It begins by highlighting the importance of traditional medicine in various cultures and its vital link to the cultural ...
Martha Judith Aubin, Lucero Nataly Castañeda Becerra, Chirinos Natalia Sabrina Chirinos, Lizeth Soledad Choque Condori, Maria Florentin, Cecilia Noelia Leiva, Delia María Ríos, Marisa Natalia Rodriguez, Ana Marleny Urbina Moscol, Lourdes Julieta Urunaga   +9 more
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Color-dependent changes in humans during a verbal fluency task under colored light exposure assessed by SPA-fNIRS

Scientific Reports, 2021
Light evokes robust visual and nonvisual physiological and psychological effects in humans, such as emotional and behavioral responses, as well as changes in cognitive brain activity and performance.
Hamoon Zohdi, Rahel Egli, Daniel Guthruf, Felix Scholkmann, Ursula Wolf   +4 more
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Bee Venom—A Potential Complementary Medicine Candidate for SARS-CoV-2 Infections

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is characterized by severe cytokine storm syndrome following inflammation. SARS-CoV-2 directly interacts with angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2) receptors in the human body.
Dr. Keneth Iceland Kasozi, G. Niedbała, Mohammed Alqarni, G. Zirintunda, F. Ssempijja, S. Musinguzi, I. Usman, Kevin Matama, H. Hetta, N. E. Mbiydzenyuy, G. Batiha, A. Beshbishy, S. Welburn   +12 more
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Challenges in Healing Wound: Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Although the word wound sounds like a simple injury to tissue, individual's health status and other inherent factors may make it very complicated. Hence, wound healing has gained major attention in the healthcare. The biology wound healing is precise and
P. Monika, M. N. Chandraprabha, A. Rangarajan, Prashant Waiker, K. C. Chidambara Murthy   +4 more
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Use of traditional and complementary medicine for maternal health and wellbeing by African migrant women in Australia: a mixed method study

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2020
Background Traditional medicine serves as a form of primary health care for more than 80% of African populations. Currently, there is no research documenting if and how African migrant communities engage with their traditional health practices and ...
Zewdneh Shewamene, T. Dune, C. Smith
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Traditional and complementary medicine during COVID‐19 pandemic

Phytotherapy Research, 2020
The recent corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has uniquely challenged medical research community worldwide due to absence of any vaccine or proven therapy.
S. Ganguly, S. Bakhshi
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Practice-Based Research in Complementary Medicine: Could N-of-1 Trials Become the New Gold Standard?

Healthcare, 2020
Complementary medicines and therapies are popular forms of healthcare with a long history of traditional use. Yet, despite increasing consumer demand, there is an ongoing exclusion of complementary medicines from mainstream healthcare systems.
J. Bradbury, C. Avila, S. Grace
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Intersubject Variability in Cerebrovascular Hemodynamics and Systemic Physiology during a Verbal Fluency Task under Colored Light Exposure: Clustering of Subjects by Unsupervised Machine Learning

Brain Sciences, 2022
There is large intersubject variability in cerebrovascular hemodynamic and systemic physiological responses induced by a verbal fluency task (VFT) under colored light exposure (CLE).
Hamoon Zohdi, Luciano Natale, Felix Scholkmann, Ursula Wolf   +3 more
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Disclosure of complementary medicine use to medical providers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Scientific Reports, 2019
Concomitant complementary medicine (CM) and conventional medicine use is frequent and carries potential risks. Yet, CM users frequently neglect to disclose CM use to medical providers.
H. Foley, A. Steel, H. Cramer, H. Cramer, J. Wardle, J. Adams   +5 more
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A Brief Review of Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications of Enema in Iranian Traditional Medicine and Other Complementary Medicines [PDF]

Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Enema or ‘hoqne’ is a therapeutic approach used for a wide range of diseases in the Iranian traditional medicine. The use of this method dates back to thousands of years to Hippocrates and Galen.
Hamideh khorrampazouh, Seyed Musa al-Reza Hosseini, Mohammadreza Noras   +2 more
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