Lewith G T, Watkins A D
University of Southampton, UK.
Allergy. 1996 Nov;51(11):761-9.
Acupuncture, homoeopathy, mind-body therapies, and nutritional, herbal, and environmental medicine have all been used in the management of patients with asthma. This paper reviews the evidence base for the use of these unconventional or complementary therapies. Although there is a paucity of large randomized, controlled trials in this area, there is sufficient evidence to suggest that many of these therapies can produce objective and subjective benefit in selected groups of patients. In view of the increasing popularity of complementary medicine among patients and general practitioners, there is now an urgent need for high-quality research to determine how, or whether, these therapies may be interwoven with the more orthodox treatments currently available.
针灸、顺势疗法、身心疗法以及营养医学、草药医学和环境医学都已被用于哮喘患者的治疗。本文回顾了使用这些非常规或补充疗法的证据基础。尽管该领域缺乏大型随机对照试验，但有足够的证据表明，这些疗法中的许多都能在特定患者群体中产生客观和主观的益处。鉴于补充医学在患者和全科医生中越来越受欢迎，现在迫切需要高质量的研究来确定这些疗法如何或是否可以与目前可用的更传统的治疗方法相结合。
