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01 January 2009

ALTERNATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY METHODS

NOTE: When choosing an alternative care practitioner, it is crucial that you inform yourself on the appropriate education your practitioner should have. For naturopaths, their degree should come only from medical schools that are accredited by the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME). This is the ONLY accrediting agency recognized by the United States Dept. of Education for accrediting programs in naturopathic education. Your naturopath should also have passed the required state and national licensing exams and they should, even if living in a state that does not yet have a licensing program of naturopaths, be licensed in a state that does. (Most of the wording of this information is taken from the Colorado Association of Naturopathic Physicians website.)
The only accredited Naturopathic schools in this country are:
There are other colleges in the process of accreditation. You can see this list on the Education and Training page of the COANP. I have not yet compiled info on appropriate credentials for other alternative practitioners such as homeopaths, Chinese medicine practitioners and the like. (Naturopaths often do include homeopathy and Chinese medicine in their practices, among other things.)

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It is always a good idea to check the dates of any information that appeals to you to determine whether or not it affects the validity of the article.

Bastyr University (Naturopathy)
http://www.bastyr.edu/default.asp
Type "hepatitis c" into their search box.

Canada's Hepatitis C Resource Library
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hepc/pubs/nc-hcp-sn-is/chapter6_e.html
Includes a list of herbs that are toxic for Hepatitis C

Chinese: Doc Misha's Hepatitis C Help
http://www.docmisha.com/applying/hepatitis_help/index.html
Chinese: Your Liver, Springtime and Traditional Chinese Medicine
http://www.hepcprimer.com/wordpress/2006/04/20/your-liver-springtime-and-traditional-chinese-medicine/
from Nicole Cutler, L.Ac., Hep C Primer, April 20, 2006

*Deutsches Hepatitis C Forum e.V. - Alternatives to Interferon
(Is in English) http://www.hepatitis-c.de/alternae.htm
Note on May 12, 2008: I see that the english version is no longer attached to these links, and I can't, with a quick exploration, seem to find an english version anywhere. Too bad, for there was lots of good info here. I'll try sometime in the next month to see if it exists anywhere.
Healthy Hepper
http://www.healthyhepper.com/

Hepatitis C: A Retrospective Study, Literature Review, and Naturopathic Protocol
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FDN/is_4_5/ai_65068473
18 pages long (small web pages)

Hep C Challenge's Online Book: "Choices" http://hepcchallenge.org/choices/coverpagep.htm
This book is mentioned in the "Organizations" section above, and has several chapters on alternative care. Here are direct links to those specific chapters:


Herbs That Are Toxic To the Liver (List of)
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hepc/pubs/nc-hcp-sn-is/chapter6_e.html
From Canada's Hepatitis C Resource Library

Natural Therapies and HCV
http://www.hepcvsg.org/nattoc.htm
Canadian Darlene Morrow's site

Naturopathic Treatment of Hepatitis C
http://www.hepcvsg.org/bayley1.html
Dr. David Bayley, BScK., N.D., North Vancouver

NCCAM (NIH - National Institutes of Health)
http://nccam.nih.gov/
National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Enter "hepatitis c" (in quotes) in the search box at the top right corner of the page. Or go directly to the Hepatitis C page here:
PubMed: A Conservative Triple Antioxidant Approach to the Treatment of Hepatitis C
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=
PubMed&list_uids=10554539&dopt=Abstract
Integrative Medical Center of New Mexico, New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM

University Health Clinic Specialty Care and Research Center
http://www.universityhealthclinic.com
/hepatitis-treatement-seattle.html (Yes, the spelling error in "treatement" is necessary for the URL to work)
Alternative treatment for Hepatitis C in Seattle (with very strong ties to Bastyr University). This is a one-of-a-kind center in this country - the largest for alternative treatment for Hep C.
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