Exam 17: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Before receiving acupuncture treatment, make sure the needles to be used are ________ and disposable.

The therapy that involves a practitioner using a number of different hand positions over a patient's body to channel and direct healing energy is called

What health care system was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, an allopathic physician who disliked the toxic drugs of his time?

How does the regulation process compare between herbal medicines and pharmaceutical drugs?

Energy therapies include all of the following EXCEPT

Osteopathic medicine is the type of health care offered in most physician offices and hospitals in the United States and Canada.

Preliminary studies suggest that practicing ________ may improve physical functioning for older adults, lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety and depression, and enhance immune functioning.

Goals of integrative medicine include all of the following EXCEPT

Advertisements known as ________ ads may educate consumers about new medications for health conditions, or they may motivate people to seek treatment for an untreated illness; always keep in mind, however, that they are designed to sell products.

Studies show that between 80 and 90 percent of the U.S.population has used some form of complementary or alternative therapy.

Hypnosis has been found to

Which of the following medical systems incorporates a basic concept that good health stems from the free flow of qi (or chi), vital energy or life force, through the body?

Acupuncture originated within what health care system?

Yoga has been found to be beneficial for sleep difficulties.

The series of shaking and diluting used to make homeopathic treatments is a process called ________.Solutions are often so diluted that no chemical evidence of the original substance remains.

Juan visits his health care provider complaining of a persistent cough.The provider focuses on the cough and believes the only cause is a bacterium and that antibiotics will fix it.What type of health care does Juan's provider practice?

Used either in place of or together with allopathic medicine, the term ________ is used to describe a group of alternative health systems and therapeutic interventions.(Provide the full term for this answer.)

All of the following are considered energy therapies EXCEPT

Which of the following herbal medicines may be beneficial for people with mild to moderate depression, but has side effects of increased sun sensitivity, anxiety, and headaches?

Although there does not appear to be significant risk associated with ________, and there is little definitive evidence to support its effectiveness, approximately $2.9 billion was spent on these treatments in 2007.