Browsing: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

(While MedShadow.org primarily focuses on side effects of prescription drugs, we also like to highlight effective alternative therapies. Acupuncture appears…

As yoga continues to rise in popularity, it may help reduce the use of medications for some common medical conditions.…

Is it possible that vitamin D can ward off cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, metabolic disorders, depression, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, mortality and even autism? Readers of health articles have been deluged by such stories.

While gaining greater acceptance among some physicians and patients, Chinese herbs are still shrouded in mystery: What are they exactly? Where do you get them? Do they interfere with pharmaceutical drugs? And, most important, are they safe?

Nearly 16 million Americans are currently practicing some form of yoga. Yoga continues to rise in popularity because it’s a…