Traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine approaches to mental health care and psychological wellbeing in India and China

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 660-672

  Thirthalli, Jagadisha ^a   Zhou, Liang ^b   Kumar, Kishore ^c   Gao, Jie ^d   Vaid, Henna ^e   Liu, Huiming ^b   Hankey, Alex ^f   Wang, Guojun ^b   Gangadhar, Bangalore N ^a   Nie, Jing Bao ^g   Nichter, Mark ^h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Ayurveda Dietetics Research Institute   (India)

^d GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^f Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; AYURVEDA; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INDIA; INSOMNIA; MASSAGE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MOXIBUSTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; QIGONG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TAI CHI; YOGA; MENTAL DISORDERS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHINA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84975457194     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30025-6     Document Type: Review

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