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Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health Conditions
Follow the links below to find information about the use of complementary and alternative therapies and medicines for mental health conditions, including stress and dementia, and for diseases that can affect mental health.
Reviewed December 2011
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| Title: | Huperzine A for vascular dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Vascular dementia (VaD) refers to cognitive impairment associated with cerebrovascular brain injury. It influences quality of life seriously. However, there is no definitive medical or surgical treatment for vascular dementia. Huperzine A is an alkaloid... |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Meditation |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Meditation involves deliberately holding one's attention on a subject, object or process. It may also involve clearing the mind. Results can include feeling more 'alive', enhanced feelings of calm and heightened awareness. Meditation offers many health benefits, such as reducing stress, and supporting healing and recovery from accidents. |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Acupuncture for vascular dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | There is no evidence from randomized controlled trials to determine whether acupuncture provides any effect when treating people with vascular dementia. Acupuncture is used to treat vascular dementia, but because no randomized controlled trials of acupu... |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Kinesiology |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Kinesiology means 'the study of movement'. It describes a form of therapy that uses muscle monitoring (biofeedback) to look at what may be causing 'imbalances' in the body. Kinesiologists may treat a range of disorders including stress, muscular disorders, nervous disorders, allergies, nutritional deficiencies, emotional problems and learning and behavioural difficulties. |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Breathing to reduce stress |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Stress can be managed and reduced with proper breathing. Shallow breathing is a typical stress response. Hyperventilation can prolong anxiety and stress. Abdominal breathing techniques soothe the nervous system and encourage health benefits, such as reduced blood pressure. |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Caution with complementaries for cognitive impairment |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | As the Australian population ages the burden of dementia is increasing. Conventional drug treatment only provides modest benefits for patients, so patients and their carers often turn to complementary medicines. |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Acupuncture and related interventions for smoking cessation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese therapy, generally using needles to stimulate particular points in the body. Acupuncture is used with the aim of reducing the withdrawal symptoms people experience when they try to quit smoking. Related therapies inc... |
| Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Title: | Stress - learning to relax |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | If you are feeling stressed, then you may be having trouble with sleeping and concentrating, and with being positive and hopeful. Your body may be trying to get you to recognise that it is feeling stressed by giving you headaches, making you feel sick, giving you indigestion, a fluttery feeling in the tummy, or any one of a number of other signs that are trying to show you that you need to relax. Here are some ideas to help you deal with stress. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Complementary therapies |
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| Publisher: | SANE Australia |
| Description: | Contents: What are complementary therapies? What types of complementary therapies are there, and how effective are they? How do I find out more? |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Alexander technique - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | The Alexander technique - used by many athletes, actors and other performers - may decrease tension, improve posture and breathing, and reduce symptoms such as lower back pain. |
| Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Title: | Managing stress |
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| Publisher: | Novita Children's Services |
| Description: | Information is provided about stress, what it is and what causes it. Lots of practical suggestions are also provided for constructively dealing with stress. |
| Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Title: | Homeopathy for dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dementia is a distressing illness that has major implications for individuals with the disease and their carers. Homeopathy is a popular type of complementary medicine. It is however controversial because although there is some evidence that it is not j... |
| Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Title: | Yizhi capsule for vascular dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Vascular dementia (VD) is a syndrome or diagnosis that has different causes and clinical manifestations relating to several different vascular mechanisms and changes in the brain. It influences a patient's quality of life seriously. 'Yizhi capsule' is b... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Controlling complementary medicine claims |
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| Publisher: | Australian Prescriber |
| Description: | Despite the widespread and increasing use of complementary medicines, few of these products have been evaluated for efficacy or therapeutic equivalence. |
| Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Title: | Aroma therapy for dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Aroma therapy is the use of pure essential oils from fragrant plants (such as Peppermint, Sweet Marjoram, and Rose) to help relieve health problems and improve the quality of life in general. The healing properties of aroma therapy are claimed to includ... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Menopause management |
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| Publisher: | The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health |
| Description: | Not all the symptoms experienced by women in midlife are the result of declining oestrogen levels. Herbal therapies may manage mood changes such as anxious thoughts and depressed feelings, as well as fatigue and low energy. |
| Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Title: | Zhiling decoction for vascular dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Zhiling is a decoction of 15 Chinese herbs which is thought to contribute to dilating cerebral vessels and increasing cerebral blood flow, as well as reducing serum cholesterol. No randomised controlled trials of Zhiling decoction versus placebo were fo... |
| Date: | May 2008 |
| Title: | Pharmacological interventions for clozapine-induced hypersalivation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Clozapine is an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia, a mental health problem that can cause symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions and social withdrawal. Clozapine may be useful in those for whom other medications hav... |
| Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Title: | Ginkgo biloba for cognitive impairment and dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Ginkgo biloba appears to be safe in use with no excess adverse effects compared with placebo. Many of the early trials used unsatisfactory methods, were small, and publication bias cannot be excluded. Overall, evidence that Ginkgo has predictable and cl... |
| Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Title: | Ayurvedic medicine for schizophrenia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Ayurvedic medicine was developed in India over 3000 years ago and is the oldest medical system to have survived until the present time. It sees each individual as having a unique mind-body constitution and set of life circumstances. It is similar to ... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
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