PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Edzard Ernst
AU  - Paul Posadzki
TI  - Alternative therapies for asthma: are patients at risk?
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-5-427
DP  - 2012 Oct 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 427--429
VI  - 12
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/12/5/427.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/12/5/427.full
SO  - Clin Med2012 Oct 01; 12
AB  - Asthma patients often try some form of alternative medicine. This article questions whether this is good or bad. Systematic reviews fail to demonstrate that the treatments in question are demonstrably effective. Other data raise considerable concern over the safety of some forms of alternative medicine. Thus the risk-benefit balance fails to be positive. Patients are often mislead to believe otherwise and physicians should inform their asthma patients responsibly about the value of alternative medicine.