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Eastern medicine: from nutritional supplements to cancer research.

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  • Acupuncture is one of these aforementioned branches that has made major inroads into Western medicine

  • Complementary and alternative medicine includes many branches such as herbal medicine which increasingly appears in the form of nutritional supplements to elude increasing governmental regulation as demand for these products grow

  • Understanding the value and discovering the merits of each discipline using modern Western scientific methodology is integral in trying to incorporate desirable aspects into traditional medicine. This special issue reviewed and accepted merited articles ranging in topics from the current dilemma of Eastern medicine in the West to the problem of government oversight in the field of herbs that are frequently and misguidedly marketed as nutritional supplements

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Acupuncture is one of these aforementioned branches that has made major inroads into Western medicine. Editorial Eastern Medicine: From Nutritional Supplements to Cancer Research Lu,1 Yemeng Chen,2 Lixian Xu,3 and Leo M.

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