The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7417 p307
9 September 2006

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Complementary medicine

No clear evidence

From Dr S. A. Malcolm, MRPharmS

Complementary or alternative medicines are names given to remedies for which there is no clear evidence that they work. Any treatment that is shown by proper scientific inquiry to be effective automatically enters the corpus of orthodox medicine. Contrary to the suggestion by Peter Houghton (PJ, 19 August, p221), acceptance as conventional treatment is not restricted to medicines whose mode of action is fully understood.

Stewart Malcolm
Bures, Suffolk

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