Evaluation of effectiveness of randomized clinical trials in alternative medicine

ABSTRACT

This paper is an attempt to evaluate effectiveness of randomized clinical trials in alternative medicine. People are living longer than ever before but several chronic diseases such as hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, malignancies and HIV / AIDS are increasing. Modern Medicine does not provide satisfactory solution of these diseases and is expensive. Therefore, non-traditional treatment is being encouraged which includes herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, therapeutic massage, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. The support to this concept comes out from the published figures which show that more herbs are being imported in advanced countries like USA, UK and Canada. We concluded after meta analysis that randomized clinical trials are ineffective in alternative medicine to evaluate the response of different remedies