alternative medicine

alternative medicine

10 years ago, creating a research center on alternative medicine at the prestigious National Institutes of Health in the United States had generated much controversy. But 10 years later, most of their studies … have demonstrated the futility of treatment!

Last July, for example, one study showed that echinacea did not prevent or cure colds. It is to the point where, with the feeling of spending taxpayers’ money to demonstrate what we already knew, the new Director proposes that the objectives of its National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (budget: U.S. $ 125 million ) are reoriented towards the management of symptoms, especially pain – that is to say how some therapies, if they do not cure, can at least help ensure that the patient feels better. “