Ethnographic analysis finds complementary alternative medicine impacts treatment selection in Fayoum city, suggesting its role alongside traditional therapy.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) refers to a group of medical and health-care systems, practices, and products that are not considered to be part of conventional medicine. Medical therapies that are used in addition to or instead of traditional (mainstream) therapy are referred to as alternative medicine. It is sometimes referred to as "integrative" or "complementary" medicine. More than half of all adults in the United States say they utilize complementary and alternative medicine. The aim of the current report is to describe setup and the services and treatment selection of the complementary medicine clinic in Fayoum city, Egypt. The ethnographic approach utilized in this study was inspired by Spradley's method. Ethnography is the most venerable of qualitative research methods. The authors concluded that Complementary alternative medicine is very important effective treatment branch usually in simple complaints as headache, obese patients and bone ache and symptoms at start of disease, but is not work alone especially in chronic or debilitating diseases, and have useless outcomes in patients with late stage diseases, over age patients and acute emergency cases, so that complementary therapy complete treatment with medical therapy in variety of cases, not rather than or alternate the medical treatment.
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