Popularity of complementary and alternative medicine in Japan: a telephone survey
Complementary Therapies in MedicinePublished 1 June 2002
Hitoshi YAMASHITA, Hiroshi Tsukayama, Chieko Sugishita
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CAM is very popular in Japan and the expenditures for them are not negligible, although there is still an overwhelming dominance of orthodox Western medicine with regard to cost, variety of indications, and severity of conditions.
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CAM is very popular in Japan and the expenditures for them are not negligible, although there is still an overwhelming dominance of orthodox Western medicine with regard to cost, variety of indications, and severity of conditions.
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