The survey: the success of other medicines

The survey: the success of other medicines

Four out of ten French people use "alternative" therapies to take care of their health. A trend that has moved the lines within classical medicine, since it no longer hesitates to open its doors to this type of discipline. Alternative medicines to classical medicine such as hypnosis or auriculotherapy can be practiced by general practitioners and are taught at medical universities. Doctor Grégory TOSTI general practitioner and hypnotherapist hypnotizes her patient Valérie MARTIN who suffers from back pain that the drugs can no longer calm. She reacts to this first session: "Yes, very relaxed, it’s very pleasant." For this doctor, no ambiguity, hypnosis does not replace classical medicine: "hypnosis is a rich tool to use as a complement to medical management". From general practitioners to large hospital departments, alternative medicine is gaining ground. At the Gustave Roussy Institute, patients who suffer the consequences of chemotherapy are offered auriculotherapy sessions. A auriculotherapy patient talks about pain relief: "I feel better. I feel good." Etiopathy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, nearly half of generalists today report using these practices not recognized by health insurance and yet taught in the largest faculties of medicine. Recently, Montpellier, the oldest, has been training its students in ideogram, Chinese medicine. Doctor Alain DJEMAA, general practitioner: "I’m not going to tell all my patients I stop giving you drugs from the laboratories and we do everything Chinese. But a lot of my patients learning that I’m doing this training are wondering when you can treat us like this." These training courses lead to a real university diploma, the solution for framing these different medicines, which still too often attract charlatans.

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Publication date : 24 October 2009