Complementary & Alternative Health Care

What is it?

Complementary and alternative health care (CAHC) covers a wide range of healing practices. Acupuncture, herbal medicine and chiropractic are some of the most familiar complementary or alternative approaches. But practices from prayer to taking vitamins can also be considered CAHC.

UHN Resources

UHN Brochures and Pamphlets

• Facts about Natural and Herbal Products

UHN Clinics or Centres

• Accupuncture for Addictions Clinic
• Al and Malka Green Artists' Health Centre

Related Web Sites

• The Alternative Medicine Homepage
  Created by a librarian, this web site is a jump station for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
• The British Medical Acupuncture Society
  Provides detailed information to help you decide whether acupuncture might be a useful treatment to try for your condition.
• CAMline
  Provides information on the safety and efficacy of CAM products, therapies and practitioners.
• Complementary Medical Association
  Click on the five drop-down menu offering access to information about therapies, remedies, supplements, conditions, and drug-herb interactions.
• NHC Institute
  The Natural Health Consultants Institute is a healing arts educational institute in Montreal. Among others, a main goal of NHCI is to bring to the community educational tools of self-empowerment. The aim is to provide the community with qualified natural health consultants, who can guide others on their own paths of self-discovery and self-healing.
• National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
  The National Institutes of Health's, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) conducts and supports basic and applied research and training. It then disseminates this information on complementary and alternative medicine to practitioners and the public.
• Ontario College of Reflexology
  Located in Ontario, this non-profit organization’s objective is to establish and operate a college or society of reflexology for accreditation; to maintain and improve the qualifications and standards of the reflexology profession; to unite members of the reflexology profession and protect the character and status of the profession, and to promote ethical practice of reflexology. Reflexology resources and referrals can be found here.
• All Herbs and Supplements
  Over 100 herbs and supplements from Natural Standard. Each monograph contains evidence-based, peer-reviewed data, and many contain illustrations.
• QuackWatch: Questionable Cancer Therapies
  Stephen Barrett, MD has compiled a comprehensive explanation of a variety of alternative cancer therapies in a subsection of his QuackWatch Web Site.
• The Reiki Page
  This web page is a collection of information about Reiki and is presented with the purpose of spreading knowledge of what Reiki is.
• The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  The Centre is dedicated to investigating the effectiveness of alternative/complementary therapies used for cancer prevention and control. The Center's mission is to facilitate scientific evaluations of biopharmacologic and herbal therapies and innovative approaches, establish a national network of alternative medicine practitioners, conventional practitioners, and researchers, and upport the use of critical evaluation skills among scientists and researchers.
• Healing Touch
  The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony, energy and balance within the human energy system. This goal supports the client's self-healing process of becoming whole in body, mind, emotion and spirit.