What Complementary Medicine Might Do For You
What complementary medicine can do:
- Help you take an active role in your health care.
- Ease some symptoms, especially pain, stiffness, stress, anxiety and depression.
- Improve your outlook, your attitude and the quality of your life.
- Work with conventional medicine to enhance the effects of both kinds of treatments, and promote wellness.
What complementary medicine can't do:
- Treat most acute illnesses.
- Replace proven medical treatments.
- 'Cure' chronic disease.
This information was excerpted from The Arthritis Foundation's Guide to
Alternative Therapies.
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