Department of Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, UK.
Clin Med (Lond). 2012 Oct;12(5):427-9. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-5-427.
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.
哮喘患者经常尝试一些形式的替代医学。本文质疑这是好还是坏。系统评价未能证明所讨论的治疗方法具有明显的疗效。其他数据对某些形式的替代医学的安全性提出了相当大的关注。因此，风险效益平衡未能呈阳性。患者经常被误导，认为并非如此，医生应该负责任地告知哮喘患者替代医学的价值。
