Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis

This is a single source for accurate and unbiased information on the many complementary and alternative medicines that can help manage some MS symptoms and promote general health. Readers will be able to: * find unconventional options for therapy; * learn of potentially dangerous interactions between alternative therapies and medical treatments; * identify therapies that are effective, low risk, and inexpensive; * recognize ineffective, dangerous, or costly alternative therapies. A section on Integrating Conventional and Unconventional Medicine links specific symptoms to potentially useful alternative therapies: If readers have, for example, spasticity or bladder problems, they can easily identify potentially useful alternative strategies. The book includes a glossary of popular supplements commonly used in MS care.Many general books deal with the general topic of alternative and complementary therapies, but most contain serious errors about their u se in people with MS, and none specifically addresses the dangerous interactions that can occur between some therapies and the disease.Bowling, Allen C. is the author of 'Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis' with ISBN 9781888799521 and ISBN 1888799528.