Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Encyclopedia

From Wiki4CAM

Wiki4CAM has been started to provide the CAM community their own space where they can build their knowledge base without any undue skeptical diversions. Only CAM practitioners can participate in this wiki.

Since we have just started, most of the pages are still empty. We have provided these initial categories and pages as stubs, from where the CAM community can build it further. A wiki is all about community participation, so let us all work together to make this the most exhaustive and authoritative source for all complementary and alternative therapies and systems of medicine.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is an umbrella term for alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and integrative medicine. Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments. Complementary medicine describes practices used in conjunction and cooperation with conventional medicine. While integrative medicine is viewed as the best of complementary medicine by its advocates.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine defines complementary and alternative medicine as "a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine". It also defines integrative medicine as "[combining] mainstream medical therapies and CAM therapies for which there is some high-quality scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness".

CAM has been described as comprising "a diverse group of treatments, ranging from symptomatic interventions to be used in conjunction with traditional therapies—therapeutic touch or meditation—to unique treatments meant to replace conventional chemotherapy or surgery. CAM includes complex and longstanding fields of study, such as acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, and homoeopathy, but can also be as straightforward as taking a specific dietary supplement to lower blood pressure or blood lipid concentrations."

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Individual Therapies (alphabetic list)

Acupressure | Acupuncture | Anthroposophic medicine | Applied Kinesiology | Aromatherapy | Ayurveda Bach Flower | Bowen Technique Chelation Therapy | Chiropractic | Chromotherapy | Craniosacral Therapy Dowsing Emotional Freedom technique (EFT) | External Enhanced Counter Pulsation (EECP) Fasting | Faith Healing Iridology | Isopathy Quigong Herbalism | Homeopathy | Hydrotherapy Magnetotherapy | Meditation | Mud Therapy | Music Therapy Naturopathy Orthomolecular medicine | Osteopathy Pranic healing Reflexology | Reiki Shamanic Healing | Shiatsu | Siddha Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) | Transendental Meditation Unani | Urine Therapy Yoga

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General Topics

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