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A University Polyclinic at Westminster

by Dr David Peters

On 14 May HRH the Prince of Wales opened the University of Westminster's new clinic of complementary therapies. Acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, therapeutic bodywork, herbal ...

Barriers to Integration are in our Minds

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

I am starting this brief article by looking at boundaries between some complementary professions, but where this takes us is revolutionary - so please read on even if the words ost...

Complementary Therapies in the Next Decade: The Challenges

by Mark Kane

Never before have complementary therapies found so much favour. Patients are choosing and using complementary therapies in greater numbers than ever before. There are examples of a...

Dealing with Harm

by Nancy Blake

This column focuses on how practitioners in health-enhancing professions can keep well, and use their skills to the best of their ability to help their clients without drowning in ...

Ethics and Integration (or Incarceration)?

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

In this short article, the author discusses ethics, safety and codes of conduct within both regulated and unregulated complementary medicine professions. As well as the ongoing nee...

Integrating Complementary Therapies into Mainstream Education

by Dr Brian Isbell

Over the past decade approximately ten universities in the UK have become involved in developing degree courses in complementary therapies.

Integration: Malign or Benign

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

According to Leon Chaitow there are two opposing views of the process of the integration of conventional and complementary medicine.

Mud Therapy in Bulgaria

by Pippa Canney

The author gives a detailed account of the location and setting of the Tuzlata treatment centre and its mud spa. 

Optimizing the Healing Potential

by Mary Martin

This column discusses the placebo effect which, the author says, can override psychological and physical conditions, and is the strongest, most comprehensive and most proven medici...

P.C., Gender, Interprofessional Discord and Integration

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

In the Integrated Medicine column this month Leon Chaitow looks at several issues in alternative medicine where discord, confusion and imbalance exist within alternative medicine a...

Patient Expectations and Belief - Placebo or a Treatment Bonus

by Bernadette Ward

A claim regularly put forward by detractors of complementary medicine is that one of the reasons that patients benefit from complementary healthcare treatments is the time the pract...

Peace and Harmony in Holistic Medicine?

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

Peace and Harmony in Holistic Medicine? You would think so but the truth is there exists a tendency, currently awesomely evident, for displays of mutual animosity, antagonism and...

Practitioners Must State The Case For Complementary and Alternative Medicine

by Richard Eaton

This is an urgent call to all practitioners to state the case for complementary and alternative medicine.  The view accepted and promoted by the media is that because CAM lacks the...

Sharing a Common Ground

by June Butlin

It's not so long ago that complementary therapy was frowned upon and each discipline at that time was working towards the common goal of establishing themselves in the health care ...

The Challenge of Working and Learning Together

by Dr David Peters

Complementary medicine is a relative newcomer to the NHS. CM works better for some problems (and for certain kinds of people) than it does for others and is most effective in the h...

The Human Factor

by Mary Martin

Reflexologist Mary Martin focuses on how modern medicine has disregarded the psychological and emotional levels of health, how science has disconnected itself from the patient. Hea...

The Importance of Integrative Health Care

by June Butlin

As a nutritionist, June Butlin, believes that our bodies are derived from the nutrients we take from our food, helped by oxygen and water. She does not feel that the medical establ...

We have to educate to integrate

by Dr David Peters

Integration is the new buzz-word: the argument being that non-conventional therapies are here to stay, so why not put them to work in the mainstream?

Wholistic Integrative Care

by Dr Daniel Benor

The author uses the word 'wholistic' to provide a single alternative to the many meanings of holistic and integrative care. He settles for the treatment of body, mind and spirit in...

Why Research?

by Dr David Peters

As we enter this hazardous age of 'Integration' (with a capital I) there's a great deal of ambivalence about what it might imply. We may be less alternative than we were, but wisel...