How much of CAM is based on research evidence?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ernst, Edzard ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CHONDROITIN; GLUCOSAMINE; GUAR GUM; ISPAGULA; KAVA; LYCOPENE; MELATONIN; PEPPERMINT; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; UBIDECARENONE; YOHIMBINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUPUNCTURE; AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROMATHERAPY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONSTIPATION; CRATAEGUS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET THERAPY; DYSPEPSIA; EPHEDRA SINICA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; FIBER; GARLIC; GINKGO BILOBA; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; HYPERTENSION; HYPNOSIS; INSOMNIA; LABOR PAIN; LEISURE; MASSAGE; MIGRAINE; MUSIC THERAPY; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; OAT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RED CLOVER; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SABAL; SMOKING CESSATION; SOYBEAN; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEA; TOMATO; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; WATER IMMERSION;

EID: 80052769357     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep044     Document Type: Review

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