tailieunhanh - Chronic Viral Hepatitis - part 8

Trong nghĩa rộng, các phương pháp điều trị y tế bổ sung và thay thế bao gồm chăm sóc sức khỏe được cung cấp bên ngoài lĩnh vực của y học thông thường. Trong thập kỷ qua, tỷ lệ những người Mỹ đã báo cáo sử dụng liệu pháp thay thế hoặc bổ sung đã tăng từ 34 đến 42%. | 12 Complementary and Alternative Treatment of Liver Disease Ken Flora MD and Kent Benner MD Contents Introduction Traditions of Alternative Medicine Alternative Therapy with Herbs Adverse Effects of Herbal Therapy Conclusion References INTRODUCTION In the broadest sense complementary and alternative health treatments encompass health care provided outside the domain of conventional medicine. in the past decade the proportion of Americans who report using alternative or complementary therapies has grown from 34 to 42 . During that interval the projected number of total visits to alternative practitioners increased by 47 from 427 million visits yr in 1991 to 629 million visits yr in 1997. It is estimated Americans paid that year for alternative health services most of which was out-of-pocket expenses billion an amount comparable to out-of-pocket expenses paid for all . physicians 1 2 . With the proliferation of non-conventional health care patients providers and payers have increasingly adopted various forms of alternative therapy thereby expanding the boundaries of conventional medicine. In response to these trends Congress created the Office of Alternative Medicine OĂM at the National Institutes of Health NIH in 1992 to perform research in complementary alternative and unconventional practices. NIH funding for research From Clinical Gastroenterology Diagnosis and Therapeutics Edited by R. S. Koff and G. Y. Wu Humana Press Inc. Totowa NJ 233 234 Flora and Benner in alternative medicine has steadily grown from 2 million yr in 1992 to a million appropriation to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine NICAM formerly OAM for fiscal year 2000 representing the largest annual increase among all NIH institutes 37 above 1999 spending . Complementary and alternative medicine encompasses a broad spectrum of therapy including acupuncture homeopathy herbal medicine relaxation techniques well-established therapy disciplines chiropractic .

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