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  1. The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is becoming more common, but population-based descriptions of its patterns of use are lacking. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of CAM use in...

    Authors: Amy Metcalfe, Jeanne Williams, Jane McChesney, Scott B Patten and Nathalie Jetté
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:58
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  2. Curcumin, an Asian spice and food-coloring agent, is known for its anti-oxidant properties. We propose that curcumin can improve diabetes-induced endothelial dysfunction through superoxide reduction.

    Authors: Sirada Rungseesantivanon, Naris Thenchaisri, Preecha Ruangvejvorachai and Suthiluk Patumraj
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:57
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  3. Strychnos potatorum Linn (Loganiaceae) is a moderate sized tree found in southern and central parts of India, Sri Lanka and Burma. In traditional system of medicine, Strychnos potatorum Linn seeds were used for ...

    Authors: Sanmugapriya Ekambaram, Senthamil Selvan Perumal and Venkataraman Subramanian
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:56
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  4. Cholangiocarcinoma is a serious public health in Thailand with increasing incidence and mortality rates. The present study aimed to investigate cytotoxic activities of crude ethanol extracts of a total of 28 p...

    Authors: Wiratchanee Mahavorasirikul, Vithoon Viyanant, Wanna Chaijaroenkul, Arunporn Itharat and Kesara Na-Bangchang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:55
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  5. Zizyphus lotus L. (Desf.) also known as Jujube, is a deciduous shrub which belongs to Rhamnaceae family. This plant is used in Algerian traditional medicine for its anti-diabetic, sedative, analgesic, anti-infla...

    Authors: Chahid Benammar, Aziz Hichami, Akadiri Yessoufou, Anne-Marie Simonin, Meriem Belarbi, Hocine Allali and Naim A Khan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:54
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  6. Spirulina is a commercial alga well known to contain various antioxidants, especially phycocyanin. Apart from being sold as a nutraceutical, Spirulina is incorporated as a functional ingredient in food products ...

    Authors: Wan-Loy Chu, Yen-Wei Lim, Ammu Kutty Radhakrishnan and Phaik-Eem Lim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:53
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  7. There has been a long standing interest in the identification of medicinal plants and derived natural products for developing cancer therapeutics. Our study focuses upon pancreatic cancer, due to its high mort...

    Authors: Sherine George, Siddharth V Bhalerao, Erich A Lidstone, Irfan S Ahmad, Atiya Abbasi, Brian T Cunningham and Kenneth L Watkin
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:52
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  8. Several cell culture and animal studies demonstrated that citrus bioactive compounds have protective effects against certain types of cancer. Among several classes of citrus bioactive compounds, limonoids were...

    Authors: Jose L Perez, Guddarangavvanahally K Jayaprakasha, Adriana Cadena, Elvia Martinez, Hassan Ahmad and Bhimanagouda S Patil
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:51
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  9. Cardiac sonographers frequently have work-related muscular discomfort. We aimed to assess the feasibility of having sonographers receive massages during working hours in an area adjacent to an echocardiography...

    Authors: Deborah J Engen, Dietlind L Wahner-Roedler, Anita M Nadolny, Colleen M Persinger, Jae K Oh, Peter C Spittell, Laura L Loehrer, Stephen S Cha and Brent A Bauer
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:50
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  10. The treatment of oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) and human osteosarcoma (HOS) includes surgery and/or radiotherapy which often lead to reduced quality of life. This study was aimed to study the antiprolif...

    Authors: Abdulmlik A Ghashm, Nor H Othman, Mohammed N Khattak, Noorliza M Ismail and Rajan Saini
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:49
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  11. Full-thickness burn wounds require excision and skin grafting. Multiple surgical procedures are inevitable in managing moderate to severe full-thickness burns. Wound bed preparations prior to surgery are neces...

    Authors: Yan-Teng Khoo, Ahmad Sukari Halim, Kirnpal-Kaur B Singh and Noor-Ayunie Mohamad
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:48
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  12. Honey has previously been shown to have wound healing and antimicrobial properties, but this is dependent on the type of honey, geographical location and flower from which the final product is derived. We test...

    Authors: Orla Sherlock, Anthony Dolan, Rahma Athman, Alice Power, Georgina Gethin, Seamus Cowman and Hilary Humphreys
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:47
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  13. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are produced during hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation (H/R), which may contribute to multiple organ failure. The Aim of this study was to test t...

    Authors: Mark Lehnert, Henrik Lind, Zhi Zhong, Robert Schoonhoven, Ingo Marzi and John J Lemasters
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:46
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  14. Korean red ginseng (KRG) is a ginseng that has been cultivated and aged for 4-6 years or more, and goes through an extensive cleaning, steaming and drying process. KRG contains more than 30 kinds of saponin co...

    Authors: Atsushi Oyagi, Kenjirou Ogawa, Mamoru Kakino and Hideaki Hara
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:45
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  15. Maca (Lepidium meyenii) is an Andean plant of the brassica (mustard) family. Preparations from maca root have been reported to improve sexual function. The aim of this review was to assess the clinical evidence f...

    Authors: Byung-Cheul Shin, Myeong Soo Lee, Eun Jin Yang, Hyun-Suk Lim and Edzard Ernst
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:44
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  16. Here we investigate the effect of millicurrent treatment on human chondrocytes cultivated in a collagen gel matrix and on human osteochondral explants.

    Authors: Karsten Gavénis, Stefan Andereya, Bernhard Schmidt-Rohlfing, Ralf Mueller-Rath, Jiri Silny and Ulrich Schneider
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:43
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  17. The leaves of Strobilanthes crispus (S. crispus) which is native to the regions of Madagascar to the Malay Archipelago, are used in folk medicine for their antidiabetic, diuretic, anticancer and blood pressure lo...

    Authors: Nik Soriani Yaacob, Nurraihana Hamzah, Nik Nursyazni Nik Mohamed Kamal, Siti Amalina Zainal Abidin, Choon Sheen Lai, Visweswaran Navaratnam and Mohd Nor Norazmi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:42
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  18. Contralateral acupuncture (CAT) involves inserting needles in the meridian on the side opposite the disease location and is often used in post-stroke rehabilitation. The aim of this systematic review is to sum...

    Authors: Mi-kyung Kim, Tae-Young Choi, Myeong Soo Lee, Hyangsook Lee and Chang-ho Han
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:41
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  19. Many bacteria among the Enterobacteria family are involved in infectious diseases and diarrhoea. Most of these bacteria become resistant to the most commonly used synthetic drugs in Cameroon. Natural substance...

    Authors: Assam Assam JP, JP Dzoyem, CA Pieme and VB Penlap
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:40
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  20. Language development is one of the most significant processes of early childhood development. Children with delayed speech development are more at risk of acquiring other cognitive, social-emotional, and schoo...

    Authors: Wibke Groß, Ulrike Linden and Thomas Ostermann
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:39
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  21. Complementary medicines (CMs) are popular amongst Australians and community pharmacy is a major supplier of these products. This study explores pharmacy customer use, attitudes and perceptions of complementary...

    Authors: Lesley A Braun, Evelin Tiralongo, Jenny M Wilkinson, Ondine Spitzer, Michael Bailey, Susan Poole and Michael Dooley
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:38
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  22. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a common cardiovascular disease that is extremely harmful to humans. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the diagnosis and treatment of CHD have a long history and ample expe...

    Authors: Guo-Ping Liu, Guo-Zheng Li, Ya-Lei Wang and Yi-Qin Wang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:37
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  23. Hypertension is a common non communicable condition worldwide. In developing countries (including Nigeria), the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is common. This study investigated the freque...

    Authors: Pauline E Osamor and Bernard E Owumi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:36
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  24. CAM use is widespread, especially among patients with diabetes. The Gulf States have a high prevalence of diabetes, alongside a long tradition of CAM use. The aim of this study is to establish the prevalence o...

    Authors: Abeer J Khalaf and David L Whitford
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:35
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  25. Escalating trends of obesity and associated type 2 diabetes (T2D) has prompted an increase in the use of alternative and complementary functional foods. Momordica charantia or bitter melon (BM) that is traditiona...

    Authors: Pratibha V Nerurkar, Yun-Kung Lee and Vivek R Nerurkar
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:34
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  26. Psidium guajava L., Myrtaceae, is used widely in traditional medicine for the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, gastroenteritis, stomachaches, and indigestion. However, the effect of the leaf extract of P. guaj...

    Authors: Tannaz Birdi, Poonam Daswani, S Brijesh, Pundarikakshudu Tetali, Arvind Natu and Noshir Antia
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:33
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  27. Knee osteoarthritis is a major cause of pain and functional limitation. Complementary and alternative medical approaches have been employed to relieve symptoms and to avoid the side effects of conventional med...

    Authors: Rixin Chen, Mingren Chen, Mingfei Kang, Jun Xiong, Zhenhai Chi, Bo Zhang and Yong Fu
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:32
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  28. The use of honey as a natural product of Apis spp. for burn treatment has been widely applied for centuries. Tualang honey has been reported to have antibacterial properties against various microorganisms, includ...

    Authors: Nur-Azida Mohd Nasir, Ahmad Sukari Halim, Kirnpal-Kaur Banga Singh, Ananda Aravazhi Dorai and Mehru-Nisha Muhammad Haneef
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:31
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  29. Bee pollen, a honeybee product, is the feed for honeybees prepared themselves by pollens collecting from plants and has been consumed as a perfect food in Europe, because it is nutritionally well balanced. In ...

    Authors: Hiroe Maruyama, Takashi Sakamoto, Yoko Araki and Hideaki Hara
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:30
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  30. To evaluate the effect of a dietary supplement containing polyunsaturated fatty acids, in association with Humulus lupulus extract, on the quality of sleep using the Leeds sleep evaluation questionnaire (LSEQ) in...

    Authors: Catherine Cornu, Laurent Remontet, Florence Noel-Baron, Alain Nicolas, Nathalie Feugier-Favier, Pascal Roy, Bruno Claustrat, Mitra Saadatian-Elahi and Behrouz Kassaï
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:29
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  31. The number of dementia patients has increased worldwide, with an estimated 13.7 million dementia patients in the Asia Pacific region alone. This number is expected to increase to 64.6 million by the year 2050.

    Authors: Masatoshi Takeda, Ryota Hashimoto, Takashi Kudo, Masayasu Okochi, Shinji Tagami, Takashi Morihara, Golam Sadick and Toshihisa Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:28
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  33. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is growing in popularity, especially within the pediatric population. Research on CAM practitioners and their specialties, such as pediatrics, is lacking. Within th...

    Authors: Katherine A Pohlman, Maria A Hondras, Cynthia R Long and Andrea G Haan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:26
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  34. Plants have long been investigated as a source of antibiotics and other bioactives for the treatment of human disease. New Zealand contains a diverse and unique flora, however, few of its endemic plants have b...

    Authors: Emma A Earl, Mudassar Altaf, Rekha V Murikoli, Simon Swift and Ronan O'Toole
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:25
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  35. Asclepias curassavica Linn. is a traditional medicinal plant used by tribal people in the western ghats, India, to treat piles, gonorrhoea, roundworm infestation and abdominal tumours. We have determined the pro...

    Authors: Albert A Baskar, Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu, Gabriel M Paulraj and Khalid S Al Numair
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:24
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  36. Physical activity and exercise appear to improve psychological health. However, the quantitative effects of Tai Chi on psychological well-being have rarely been examined. We systematically reviewed the effects...

    Authors: Chenchen Wang, Raveendhara Bannuru, Judith Ramel, Bruce Kupelnick, Tammy Scott and Christopher H Schmid
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:23
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  38. Many oxidative stress related diseases are as a result of accumulation of free radicals in the body. A lot of researches are going on worldwide directed towards finding natural antioxidants of plants origins. ...

    Authors: Olayinka A Aiyegoro and Anthony I Okoh
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:21
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  39. Cellular damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been implicated in several diseases, and hence natural antioxidants have significant importance in human health. The present study was carried out to...

    Authors: Bibhabasu Hazra, Rhitajit Sarkar, Santanu Biswas and Nripendranath Mandal
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:20
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  40. A variety of mint [Mentha spicata] has been bred which over-expresses Rosmarinic acid (RA) by approximately 20-fold. RA has demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory activity in vitro and in small rodents; thus ...

    Authors: Wendy Pearson, Ronald S Fletcher, Laima S Kott and Mark B Hurtig
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:19
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  41. A stressful stimulus is a crucial determinant of health and disease. Antidepressants are used to manage stress and their related effects. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of St. John's ...

    Authors: Anil Kumar, Ruchika Garg and Atish K Prakash
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:18
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  42. A phytotherapic compound containing Pimpinella anisum L., Foeniculum vulgare Miller, Sambucus nigra L., and Cassia augustifolia is largely used in Brazil for the treatment of constipation. However, the laxative e...

    Authors: Paulo D Picon, Rafael V Picon, Andry F Costa, Guilherme B Sander, Karine M Amaral, Ana L Aboy and Amélia T Henriques
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:17
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  43. Oxidative stress plays a role in acute and chronic inflammatory disease and antioxidant supplementation has demonstrated beneficial effects in the treatment of these conditions. This study was designed to dete...

    Authors: Stephen P Myers, Lesley Stevenson, Phillip A Cheras, Joan O'Connor, Lyndon Brooks, Margaret Rolfe, Paul Conellan and Carol Morris
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:16
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  44. Blechnum orientale Linn. (Blechnaceae) is used ethnomedicinally for the treatment of various skin diseases, stomach pain, urinary bladder complaints and sterilization of women. The aim of the study was to evalua...

    Authors: How Y Lai, Yau Y Lim and Kah H Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:15
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  45. Tobacco smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death among American women. Exercise has shown promise as an aid to smoking cessation because it reduces weight gain and weight concerns, improves affec...

    Authors: Beth C Bock, Kathleen M Morrow, Bruce M Becker, David M Williams, Geoffrey Tremont, Ronnesia B Gaskins, Ernestine Jennings, Joseph Fava and Bess H Marcus
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:14
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  46. Probiotics are effective in inflammatory bowel diseases. Clinical effectiveness and dose dependency of E. coli Nissle (EcN) enemas were investigated in ulcerative colitis (UC).

    Authors: Harald Matthes, Thomas Krummenerl, Manfred Giensch, Corinna Wolff and Jürgen Schulze
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:13
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  47. The Feldenkrais Method ® of somatic education purports to guide people of varying ages and abilities to improve function. Many people choose this method to aid with recovery from injury, manage chronic conditions...

    Authors: Patricia A Buchanan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:12
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  48. Infertility patients are a vulnerable group that often seeks a non-medical solution for their failure to conceive. World-wide, women use CAM for productive health, but only a limited number of studies report o...

    Authors: Tamer Edirne, Secil Gunher Arica, Sebahat Gucuk, Recep Yildizhan, Ali Kolusari, Ertan Adali and Muhammet Can
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:11
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  49. Neurological rehabilitation is one of the most care-intensive challenges in the health care system requiring specialist therapeutic and nursing knowledge. In this descriptive pilot study, we investigated the e...

    Authors: Thomas Ostermann, Mathias Bertram and Arndt Büssing
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:10
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  50. Escherichia coli occurs naturally in the human gut; however, certain strains that can cause infections, are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Multidrug-resistant E. coli that produce extended-spectrum β lactama...

    Authors: Rula M Darwish and Talal A Aburjai
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:9
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