RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Alternative therapies for asthma: are patients at risk?
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 427
OP 429
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-5-427
VO 12
IS 5
A1 Edzard Ernst
A1 Paul Posadzki
YR 2012
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/12/5/427.abstract
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.