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Does complementary medicine work?

Parish LC, Witkowski JA.

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology and Jefferson Center for International Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Complementary medicine is anecdotally-based medicine, not supported by scientific fact. Furthermore in many instances the safety of its agents has not been ascertained