Center for Complementary and Integrated Medicine
輔助暨整合醫學中心
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Country
Taiwan
City
Taipei City
Description
Center for Complementary and Integrated Medicine
Misscons of CIM Center in the current stage
【The preliminary missions focus on the following two major specific aims】
1. Counseling for the efficacy and safety issues of using Chinese herbs and botanicals as complementary medicines in patients with malignant diseases and chronic pain illness.
2. Investigation for the effective complementary or alternative regimens to improve the life quality of cancer and chronic pain illness
For achieving the above specific aims, the strategy will be adjusted in an appropriate time to fulfill the principle of integrated medical care.
【Background】
iseases are the major threatens to human health not only by causing discomfort but affectingquality of life.Particularly,for the patients suffering from cancer and chronic pain illness should face both physical and psychological pains that lead to poor life quality and even hopeless in the future.The current traditional medical cares are undoubtedly quite effective to overcome the physical pain.However,these medications still do not satisfy the requirements of patients and their families.It is true that a lot of non-traditional or folk medicines remain existence for thousands of years among different peoples in the world since ancient age.Even in the wild world, ill animals and creatures seek for botanical medicines from surrounding environments to facilitate recovery, but not just waiting for natural healing.
The scientists had observed that African chimpanzees can change diet contents and search certain unique botanicals by way of ancestor's experiences to facilitate healing of illness. Unfortunately, it is true that the scientific basis of these non-traditional or folk regimens is almost insufficient. However, the quality of life is really improved by these non-traditional regimens used as supplementary to the traditional medical care. The is a real world practice and we have to face the situation proposed by Dr. Panush that "Probably, we dislike and disagree with it, but we can not neglect it."
Nation Institute of Health in USA decided to fund "Office for Alternative Mddicine" and appointed a Counseling Committee to discuss the feasibility of the applications of non-traditional therapy in chronic illness in 1991. Finally, "Nation Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine(NCCAM)" was fully supported by the government to investigate the efficacy and adverse affects of these non-traditional regimens in the world in 1998.
A team leading by our former superintendent Fan-Yi Lin and deputy superintendent Hon-Nun Ho visited MD Anderson Cancer Center and 2 other reputational cancer hospitals in Nov. 2007. They are quite impressed by the great achievements in pain relief by using complementary medicines in their "Complementary Medical Center" of the respective hospital. These facts motivated our leadership decided to establish a similar center in this hospital. For showing the difference, our center is formally named"Center for Complementary and Integrative Medical Center " (abbreviated as CIM center) after long-term discussion in the 2nd preparatory meeting in March, 2008. Our main purpose is to emphasize the importance of "complementary" and "integrated" treatment provided by different disciplines to improve life quality of the patients with disastrous diseases, especially cancer and chronic pain illness.
Misscons of CIM Center in the current stage
【The preliminary missions focus on the following two major specific aims】
1. Counseling for the efficacy and safety issues of using Chinese herbs and botanicals as complementary medicines in patients with malignant diseases and chronic pain illness.
2. Investigation for the effective complementary or alternative regimens to improve the life quality of cancer and chronic pain illness
For achieving the above specific aims, the strategy will be adjusted in an appropriate time to fulfill the principle of integrated medical care.
【Background】
iseases are the major threatens to human health not only by causing discomfort but affectingquality of life.Particularly,for the patients suffering from cancer and chronic pain illness should face both physical and psychological pains that lead to poor life quality and even hopeless in the future.The current traditional medical cares are undoubtedly quite effective to overcome the physical pain.However,these medications still do not satisfy the requirements of patients and their families.It is true that a lot of non-traditional or folk medicines remain existence for thousands of years among different peoples in the world since ancient age.Even in the wild world, ill animals and creatures seek for botanical medicines from surrounding environments to facilitate recovery, but not just waiting for natural healing.
The scientists had observed that African chimpanzees can change diet contents and search certain unique botanicals by way of ancestor's experiences to facilitate healing of illness. Unfortunately, it is true that the scientific basis of these non-traditional or folk regimens is almost insufficient. However, the quality of life is really improved by these non-traditional regimens used as supplementary to the traditional medical care. The is a real world practice and we have to face the situation proposed by Dr. Panush that "Probably, we dislike and disagree with it, but we can not neglect it."
Nation Institute of Health in USA decided to fund "Office for Alternative Mddicine" and appointed a Counseling Committee to discuss the feasibility of the applications of non-traditional therapy in chronic illness in 1991. Finally, "Nation Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine(NCCAM)" was fully supported by the government to investigate the efficacy and adverse affects of these non-traditional regimens in the world in 1998.
A team leading by our former superintendent Fan-Yi Lin and deputy superintendent Hon-Nun Ho visited MD Anderson Cancer Center and 2 other reputational cancer hospitals in Nov. 2007. They are quite impressed by the great achievements in pain relief by using complementary medicines in their "Complementary Medical Center" of the respective hospital. These facts motivated our leadership decided to establish a similar center in this hospital. For showing the difference, our center is formally named"Center for Complementary and Integrative Medical Center " (abbreviated as CIM center) after long-term discussion in the 2nd preparatory meeting in March, 2008. Our main purpose is to emphasize the importance of "complementary" and "integrated" treatment provided by different disciplines to improve life quality of the patients with disastrous diseases, especially cancer and chronic pain illness.