According to National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (CAM) of NIH, the CAM terms are
used to mean the array of health care approaches with a
history of use or origins outside of mainstream medicine.
Numerous surveys document high level of interest in use of
CAM among the Western public, hence raising the matter
of their study in the medical education. Several scientists
have subjected CAM interventions to the same methodological
scrutiny responsible for the progress of Western clinical
medicine (that is evidence based), i.e. with the standard
of randomized controlled trials. So, the purpose of this paper
was to review the scientific evidences of two particular
CAM, Phytotherapy and Acupuncture, to evaluate their possible
involvement in the medical education.
