Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) encompasses a heterogeneous group of health-care practices, products, and systems that fall outside conventional biomedicine, used either alongside standard care, as complementary medicine, or in place of it, as alternative medicine. It includes natural products such as h…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 19× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 3070-3360 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) encompasses a heterogeneous group of health-care practices, products, and systems that fall outside conventional biomedicine, used either alongside standard care, as complementary medicine, or in place of it, as alternative medicine. It includes natural products such as herbs and dietary supplements, mind-body practices, manipulative and body-based approaches, traditional medical systems such as Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine, and energy-based modalities. Within scholarly investigation, CAM is studied to characterize purported mechanisms, to evaluate efficacy and safety against placebo and standard treatment, and to define its appropriate integration into clinical practice, with methodological rigor, standardization of preparations, and reproducibility being central concerns. Key sub-areas include herbal and phytochemical therapeutics, traditional and integrative systems, biomarker- and cell-line-based assessment of candidate interventions, and the management of chronic and inflammatory conditions. The peer-reviewed research grouped under this topic spans cell-line and animal-model evaluations of proprietary and energy-based test formulations across health-specific biomarkers, immunomodulation, oxidative balance, and tissue health, alongside traditional techniques and Ayurvedic preparations. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies in this area; readers should weigh individual findings on their methodological merits. Understanding CAM as a field is relevant to integrative medicine, pharmacognosy, and public health, where evidence-based evaluation distinguishes interventions with demonstrable benefit from those requiring further validation.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 19 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Complementary Medicine (ISSN 3070-3360).

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