Cam (complementary and alternative medicine)

The complementary and alternative medicine (CAM, by its abbreviations in English) also well-known as integral medicine consists of an extensive series of philosophies, approaches and curativas therapies.

A therapy is denominated complementary when it is used in addition to the conventional treatments; when it is used instead of the conventional treatments denominates alternative to him.
The conventional treatments are those treatments widely accepted and put in practice by the established medical community). Depending on how some therapies are used, these can be considered complementary or alternative.

The complementary or alternative therapies are used like a effort to prevent the disease, to reduce stress, to prevent or to reduce to the indirect effect and the symptoms, or with the purpose of controlling or curing the disease. Between some of the complementary or alternative methods commonly used are the interventions that treat on corporal the mental control/, manual treatment including the acupresión and the massages, herbaceous homeopatía, vitamins or products and acupuncture.

 The conventional approaches of treatment against the cancer have studied generally to determine their security and effectiveness through a rigorous scientific process that includes clinical studies with a great number of patients. Often, it is very little what one knows about the security and effectiveness of the complementary and alternative methods because few serious studies exist on the use against the cancer. Some of these complementary or alternative therapies have not been subject to rigorous evaluations. Nowadays, those that were considered little orthodox sometimes, they are finding a place in the treatment against the cancer, not as you cure, but like complementary therapies that can help the patients to feel better and to recover more soon. An example is acupuncture. this proving that acupuncture was effective in the handling of nauseas and the vomit related to the chemotherapy and in the control of the pain related to the oncologica surgery.

What must make the owners who are considering complementary and alternative the therapies to deal with the cancer their mascots?
Ls patient you of cancer who are considering complementary or alternative the medicine must consult it with their Veterinary Doctor, since they would do it with any other therapeutic approach, since some complementary and alternative therapies can interfere with their standard treatment or can be harmful when they are used the conventional treatment along with.

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