Alternative Medicine

News, commentary, criticism, analysis, and research from complementary and alternative medicine.

Acupuncture

The World Health Organisation is misguided in its handling of ‘traditional’ medicine

Michael Marshall -
The WHO is right to say we should respect indigenous, 'traditional' medical knowledge - but proper respect means applying scrutiny and rigour
Reiki

My trip to the Reiki Clinic where I learned I suffer from a magnesium deficiency

Dave Hahn -
According to a Magnesium Balm product, magnesium deficiency is widespread - and its symptoms are broad enough to apply to essentially everyone
Alternative Medicine

“What Nonsense!” – unpacking popular pseudosciences for a Brazilian audience

Carlos Orsi -
As pseudoscience flourishes in Brazil, What Nonsense! by Carlos Orsi and Natalia Pasternak seeks to redress the balance, and push back against irrationality
Alternative Medicine

So-called alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy

Edzard Ernst -
Many people who turn to alternative medicine are also vaccine hesitant - both factors are related to a distrust of, and lack of access to, mainstream medicine
Alternative Medicine

Charles appoints alt-med fan Dr Michael Dixon as Head of the Royal Medical Household

Edzard Ernst -
Though largely unnoticed, Charles' appointment of alt-med advocate, Dr Michael Dixon, as Head of the Royal Medical Household may be telling
Alternative Medicine

How should alternative medicine practitioners be regulated?

Edzard Ernst -
If alternative medicine practitioners are to be effectively regulated, they can't regulate themselves - but nor can they be given special treatment by governments
Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine for animals: why we should keep quacks away from our furry friends

Edzard Ernst -
A recent systematic review looked at the use of 24 alternative medicine modalities on cats, dogs, and horses. The results were less than impressive.
Alternative Medicine

The Nuremberg salt test: how homeopathy failed one of the earliest ever scientific trials

Sean Slater -
One of the earliest ever randomised control trials took place in 1835, when skeptical physicians put the new-fangled homeopathy to the test
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