[Naturopathy procedures. Problems in differentiation from unconventional and scientifically generally unrecognized diagnostic and therapeutic methods].
The methods of true biological medicine are well defined and acknowledged by the classical medicine. In contrary to them, there is a number of methods which should be defined as "scientifically (now) not generally acknowledged". This term is neither positively coloured nor negatively and does not include, that these methods are ineffective--it just signifies, that (at least until now) the effectivity could not be proved unobjectionably. Of course, just these methods have to be examined carefully in regard to their basic theory, their claim of efficiency and their relation of benefit and risk. Undoubtedly there are also some other methods mostly with a magic-occult base which can only be defined by the term "paramedicine".
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D000529:Complementary Therapies; D006801:Humans; D009324:Naturopathy; D011379:Prognosis
Naturheilverfahren. Problematik der Abgrenzung gegenüber unkonventionellen bzw. wissenschaftlich nicht allgemein anerkannten Diagnostik- und Therapiemethoden.