Abstract

QUESTIONING COMMON USES OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES

Dr Dinesh Kumar Jain*, Dr Himanshu Sharma, Dr Raj kumar Arya, Dr Prakash Dubey

Abstract

Indian society has full faith in alternative systems of medicine. Indians are not able to differentiate therapeutic principles, among different systems of alternative medicine. They consider all therapeutic systems are scientific and useful. Efficacy of alternative medicines are not proved by scientific principles, even then Indians are using alternative medicines. After using alternative medicines, many patients claim, they are getting benefit in their health problems and feeling healthy. Actually they are not getting any benefit by alternative medicines. It is placebo reaction or cure of disease by spontaneous recovery or actual benefit is obtained by modern medical science and they give credit to that alternative medicine that he is using with drugs of modern medical science. Actually, there should be proper animal studies and clinical trials of drug before marketing for all systems of therapeutics.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Yoga, Scientific Medicine, Uses.