By Edzard Ernst

Alternative medicine is popular: around 70% of the German population has used at least one type of alternative treatment in the past year. But what do antioxidants, aloe vera, kinesiology and reiki actually do? Can you tell from the tongue or the iris whether the internal organs are doing well? What are the successes of spiritual healing, autogenic training or hypnotherapy?

There are many reasons why these methods are so popular – misinformation shouldn’t really play a role here. Unfortunately, users and those seeking help are bombarded with misinformation. These are crucial for making wrong, unwise or even dangerous therapeutic decisions.

This book helps the reader navigate the maze of alternative medicine. In addition to essential background information on alternative medicine such as the placebo effect, scientific methods of proof and social pros and cons arguments, the book guides you through 150 alternative therapeutic and diagnostic methods and assesses them in terms of effectiveness, costs and risk potential, among other things. The book is aimed at readers who have an interest in their health and are therefore also flirting with alternative medicine and are looking for an evidence-based analysis.

The author

Edzard Ernst has been researching all aspects of alternative medicine for 25 years. He and his team have published well over 1000 peer-reviewed papers and many books on the subject, including More Harm than Good? The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2018) and Homeopathy – The Facts [undiluted] (2016) at Springer. His work has been recognized with over a dozen awards including the 2016 John Maddox Prize. He retired in 2012 and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Exeter and has consistently played an active role in the public debate on alternative medicine.

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st edition 2021 edition (December 2, 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ German
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3662617080
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3662617083
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783662617083
• eText ISBN: 9783662617090