Topics: Natural Medications

There are several natural treatments out there that may be helpful in psychiatry. Recently, the British Journal of Psychiatry published a review of “complementary medicines in psychiatry,” (Br J Psychiatry 2006;188:109-121). Based on this paper and our own review of recent better quality studies, TCPR offers the following list of potentially useful natural treatments.

Topics: Natural Medications

A number of natural treatments have been subjected to the same kinds of rigorous double blind studies required of conventional medications and they have fared poorly. Four of the most commercially popular of these treatments have received particularly harsh treatment from the scientific method.

Topics: Natural Medications

Dr. Mischoulon, thank you for returning to the pages of The Carlat Psychiatry Report. I know that since our last interview, you have been involved in studying the use of acupuncture in psychiatry. Tell us about that.

Andrew Weil, M.D., who founded and directs the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona’s Health Sciences Center in Tucson, has become the symbol of alternative medicine gone mainstream.