Thanks very much!
Sarbajit Roy wrote at 04/25/2012 06:24 PM:
Insofar as Ayurvedic medicines go, these would be good starting points. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297513/ http://www.ccimindia.org/ Informally, Ayurvedic ("herbal") medicine works for low level (common) ailments but perhaps not at the efficiency / success levels of allopathic systems. They are best viewed as complementary traditional treatments to allopathy with reduced/lower side effects (for example treatments of the common cough / cold) .
siddharth wrote at 04/26/2012 03:46 AM:
Perhaps this is of some use - http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/Using_Alternative_Therapies_JaLow.html *Using Alternative Therapies: A Qualitative Analysis by Jacqueline Low (Repost)* Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press (May 1, 2004) | ISBN: 1551302640 | Pages: 200 | PDF | 1.78 MB This book provides a distinctive sociological inquiry into the perspectives and social issues surrounding the use of alternative therapies. Dr. Low presents the experiences of twenty-one Canadians who use alternative approaches to health care. Her study foregrounds the lay perspective by using a symbolic interactionist approach, which emphasises individuals' own understanding of reality as a basis for their actions. Dr. Low analyses how and why the participants in the study came to use alternative therapies; the ideologies informing the models of health and healing they espouse; the impact these beliefs have on them, and the implications of their experiences for Canadian health care policy.
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