Alternative medicine prevalence

Conversely, active constituents may have cooperative effects and together act in an additive or synergistic (supra-additive) manner. In such cases, it would be better to consume the whole plant or extract, because the combination of constituents would give a greater effect than one alone. Thus, to blindly advocate either the use of whole herb or refined single constituents is naive. To fully know what is best for the desired effect, herbs must be considered on a case-by-case basis and the nature of the interactions between the chemical constituents must be carefully considered. Not only must we understand what the plant s chemical constituents do, we must also investigate how they interact. The Use of Herbal Medicine The Current Prevalence of Alternative Medicine... 

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Phone surveys were done in 1990 and 1997 by Eisenberg et al. to determine the prevalence of alternative medicine use in the United States. Over 1500 participants were surveyed in 1990, as well as over 2000 in the follow-up survey in 1997. The percentage of participants surveyed who reported using at least one form of alternative medicine in the preceding 12 mo was 34% in 1990 and 42% in 1997. " This is the oft-quoted 1 in 3 Americans use alternative medicine statistic. Herbal medicine use rose from only 2.5% in 1990 to 12% in 1997, making it one of the fastest growing alternative medical practices used in the United States. ... 

Ernst, E. Bassileth, B.R. The prevalence of complementary/ alternative medicine in cancer a systemic review. Cancer 1998, 83 (4), 777-782. 

Boon, H. Stewart, M. Kennard, M.A. Gray, R. Sawka, C. Brown, J.B. McWilliams, C. Gavin, A. Baron, R.A. Aaron, D. Haines-Kanka, T. Use of Complementary/ alternative medicine by breast cancer survivors in Ontario prevalence and perceptions. J. Clin. Oncol. 2000, 18 (13), 2515-2521. 

The prevalence of alternative medicine use in the United States is steadily increasing. One may even describe the phenomenon as an explosion. A landmark survey published in 1993 estimated that 33.8% of Americans used one type of alternative therapy. " A follow-up survey released in 1997 reported that... 

MacLennan AH, Wilson DH, Taylor AW. Prevalence and cost of alternative medicine in Austraha. Lancet 1996 347(9001) 569-73. 

Ernst, E. and B.R. Cassileth, 1998. The prevalence of complementary/alternative medicine in cancer A systematic review, 83 777-782. 

Leung VW, Shalansky SJ, Lo MK, Jadusingh EA. Prevalence of use and the risk of adverse effects associated with complementary and alternative medicine in a cohort of patients receiving warfarin. Ann Pharmacother 2009 43(5) 875-81. 

Bernstein, B.J., Grasso, T. (2001). Prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use in cancer patients. Oncology i5(10), 1267-1272. 

MacLennan AH, VWlson DH, Taylor AW (2002) The escalating cost and prevalence of alternative medicine. Prev Med 35 166-173... 

Nicotine in tobacco has always been used for medicinal purposes. Nicotine solutions made from soaking tobacco leaves in water have been used as pesticides for several hundred years. In modern times, numerous pharmaceutical companies have explored nicotines use for treating diseases. Nicotines most prevalent medicinal use is for smoking cessation in the form of alternate delivery systems such as gums and dermal patches. Nicotine is used medically for numerous conditions and its use is being explored in additional areas including pain relievers, attention deficit disorder medications and medications associated with Alzheimer s disease, Parkinson disease, colitis, herpes, and tuberculosis. Because of nicotines potential therapeutic use, several large tobacco companies have developed pharmaceutical divisions. 

Demographic surveys of many alternative or complementary medicines have been conducted in a range of locations, but there is usually a problem in clearly defining and categorizing individual types of product however, the usual outcome of these surveys is that the typical patient is middle-aged, middle-income, and female. One recent survey carried out in Washington State, United States, on patients aged 50-76 established the prevalence of their medical conditions, and prevalence of use of a number of nutraceuticals by both men (n = 29,435) and women (n = 32,152). Table 3 outlines the incidence of diseases treated with nutraceuticals. 

The nonmedical apphcations of nanocoatings have been prevalent for many years, particularly in the semiconductor industry, where fine control, reproducibility, and process reliability on a large production scale are of prime importance. As a consequence, medicine and pharmaceutics can learn much from alternative industries that have utilized nanocoatings. 

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