Showing papers in "European Journal of Integrative Medicine in 2015"

TL;DR: The aim of this article was to reflect on Delphi methodology and provide guidance useful to researchers in integrative medicine and to help future researchers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, cytoprotective and anticancer activities of Pistacia lentiscus extracts and their fractions and found that the extracts exhibited strong antioxidant activity in the ORAC assay and showed significant cytop-rotective effect with maximum protection at 100μg/mL increasing cell viability by 108.25 ± 1.73 and 104.13 ± 0.97%, respectively.

TL;DR: A 12-week RYM intervention could be a feasible stand-alone treatment or an integrative option within conventional treatment for IBS patients with addressing IBS and associated conditions.

TL;DR: This article gives the first comprehensive review about the current state of the art of this field covering topics such as developed pulse acquisition systems, suggested data preprocessing and feature extraction methods, and proposed classification approaches.

TL;DR: This paper identifies the key elements which define IM and provides a potential reporting guide for IM clinical trials and which could be used in narrative/systematic reviews.

TL;DR: The potential of forest therapy as an adjuvant anti-cancer therapy after standard treatments is demonstrated and a definitive trial with a control group should now be performed to confirm the feasibility and potential therapeutic effectiveness of this approach.

TL;DR: The data obtained are promising, but further studies are needed to isolate the active compounds and to conduct pharmacological tests in vivo, making it possible to develop new therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of diseases caused by multiresistant microorganisms.

TL;DR: Honey has a protective potential for the alleviation of hepatic and renal toxicities induced by CPF, as revealed by the inhibition of lipid peroxidation and the improvement observed histopathologically.

TL;DR: The primary goal of the document was to provide strategic direction for Member States as they move forward with regulatory and policy development around traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM).

TL;DR: priority areas for future TCM research are proposed by characterizing the literature contributing to published articles resulting from the three year project “Good Practice in TCM Research (FP7 GP-TCM) in the Post-genomic Era”.

TL;DR: Five of the major GMP regulations for herbal products adopted in different countries and regions are studied to determine the differences in terms of principles, contents, supervision, and industrial influence.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the relative high beta (RHB) activity increased significantly in the right temporal region and the EEG activity of isomers on human brain is highly related to the structural arrangement of individual compounds and gender difference.

TL;DR: The current study showed significantly better outcomes for the leek group compared to the standard antihemorrhoid and placebo groups for bleeding severity and overall subjective improvement, however, there was no difference among topical use of leek, routine antihem orrhoids and placebo creams symptomatic relief of pain, defecation discomfort and itching.

TL;DR: The present results suggest that yoga may be an effective treatment for CLBP and stress although the results should be confirmed with a large-scale randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: Practicalising post-operative exercises does improve arm and shoulder morbidity following breast cancer surgery and the addition of a self-practise general yoga programme was well received and appeared to improve QoL at 6 months.

TL;DR: Immediate challenges are how to improve multidisciplinary management, research, professional training, address legal/policy issues and a scientific approach to the extents and limitations of TN-CAM both in conventional health care and in the society as a whole.

TL;DR: These two new tools, CCCS and SEND, have good psychometric properties and may be useful to educators and researchers evaluating clinicians’ confidence in providing calm, compassionate care and self-efficacy in using non-drug therapies to relieve common symptoms.

TL;DR: Overall, findings on the effectiveness of acupuncture for cnLBP were consistent and future trials are needed to establish the standardization of acupuncture in terms of the length of treatment sessions, frequency of sessions, number of needles needed per treatment, placement of needle insertion, depth of needle inserted, and whether needle stimulation achieves De Qi.

TL;DR: PDM effectively normalized dyslipidemia associated with streptozotocin-induced diabetes, and possessed significant antihyperglycemic, antihyperlipidemic and antioxidant potential which may prove beneficial in the treatment of diabetes and associated complications.

TL;DR: Most of the participants that have used herbal medicines were sufficiently aware of herbal medicine and had a general positive attitude toward their usage, according to the results of this study.

TL;DR: Clinical research in TTM in China shows that TTM might have potential benefit for the management of many diseases and more efforts should be made to improve the quality of RCTs in China and support TTM's further clinical applications.

TL;DR: The issue of marginalisation provides a connection between Etienne Wenger-Trayner’s concept of landscapes of practice and neo-Weberian theory in relation to CAM practices and the process of professionalisation within the 21st century UK healthcare arena.

TL;DR: It is suggested that EFT may be an effective self-help tool for women with breast cancer experiencing side effects from hormonal therapies, and Statistically significant improvements in Total Mood Disturbance and anxiety are reported.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored 29 participants' experiences with craniosacral therapy (CST) and found that the establishment of a trusting therapeutic relationship enables CST to take clients into altered perceptual states; these in turn facilitate a new level of awareness regarding the interrelatedness of body, mind and spirit, together with an enhanced capacity to care for self and manage health problems.

TL;DR: Harmonizing hospital discharge summaries, making IT systems more compatible and informing health professionals on ways to best support foreign EU national patients could improve continuity and quality of care across Europe.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the leaves of the P. utilis Royle have marked protective effect against induced osteoporosis and improved bone quality, attenuated bone resorption, enhanced the rate of bone formation and restored bone density.

TL;DR: In this paper, the outcomes of a culturally appropriate intervention, mindfulness meditation (MM), on anger and violent behavior are reported, and the MM intervention was delivered over three consecutive weeks to technical college students and the effects compared to a comparison group who attend classes as usual.

TL;DR: The present study showed that the use of acupuncture to treat patients with schizophrenia was both practical and safe and acupuncture had a positive effect on the BDI-II for the depression group, but acupuncture had no effect onThe digit span and on the letter-number sequencing performance for the two clinical groups.

TL;DR: Both auricular therapy and self-acupressure may represent potentially effective treatments for cancer patients with insomnia, and the positive findings suggest further research is warranted into both treatment modalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, an eco-friendly method for synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNP) which have the ability to load lipophilic compounds onto their surface was investigated, where propolis is used as model molecule for loading onto surface of AgNP owing to its well reported broad range of pharmacological activities including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity.