Complementary & Alternative Health Care

Complementary and alternative health care (CAHC) covers a wide range of healing practices. Acupuncture, herbal medicine and chiropractic are some of the most familiar complementary or alternative approaches. But practices from prayer to taking vitamins can also be considered CAHC.

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Related Web Sites

•	The Alternative Medicine Homepage
	Created by a librarian, this web site is a jump station for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
•	The British Medical Acupuncture Society
	Provides detailed information to help you decide whether acupuncture might be a useful treatment to try for your condition.
•	CAMline
	Provides information on the safety and efficacy of CAM products, therapies and practitioners.
•	Complementary Medical Association
	Click on the five drop-down menu offering access to information about therapies, remedies, supplements, conditions, and drug-herb interactions.
•	NHC Institute
	The Natural Health Consultants Institute aims to provide the community with qualified natural health consultants, who can guide others on their own paths of self-discovery and self-healing.
•	National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
	The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) conducts and supports basic and applied research and training. It then disseminates this information on complementary and alternative medicine to practitioners and the public.
•	Ontario College of Reflexology
	Reflexology resources and referrals can be found here.
•	All Herbs and Supplements
	Over 100 herbs and supplements from Natural Standard. Each monograph contains evidence-based, peer-reviewed data, and many contain illustrations.
•	QuackWatch: Questionable Cancer Therapies
	Stephen Barrett, MD has compiled a comprehensive explanation of a variety of alternative cancer therapies in a subsection of his QuackWatch Web Site.
•	The Reiki Page
	This web page is a collection of information about Reiki and is presented with the purpose of spreading knowledge of what Reiki is.
•	The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
	The Center's mission is to facilitate scientific evaluations of biopharmacologic and herbal therapies and innovative approaches, establish a national network of alternative medicine practitioners, conventional practitioners, and researchers, and support the use of critical evaluation skills among scientists and researchers
•	Healing Touch
	The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony, energy and balance within the human energy system. This goal supports the client's self-healing process of becoming whole in body, mind, emotion and spirit.