Insegnare nelle Università la Fitoterapia e l’Agopuntura?

According to National Center for Complementary andAlternative Medicine (CAM) of NIH, the CAM terms areused to mean the array of health care approaches with ahistory of use or origins outside of mainstream medicine.Numerous surveys document high level of interest in use ofCAM among the Western public, hence raising the matterof their study in the medical education. Several scientistshave subjected CAM interventions to the same methodologicalscrutiny responsible for the progress of Western clinicalmedicine (that is evidence based), i.e. with the standardof randomized controlled trials. So, the purpose of this paperwas to review the scientific evidences of two particularCAM, Phytotherapy and Acupuncture, to evaluate their possibleinvolvement in the medical education.l