16^th European Diabetes and Endocrinology Congress

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Complementary and alternative medicine is can be well-defined as a "cluster of varied therapeutic and health care arrangements, practices, and medicines that are not presently measured to be part of predictable medicine”. Complementary medicine is used with predictable therapy, whereas alternative medicine is used instead of conventional medicine. In CAM therapies diabetes supplement is widely given to the diabetic patients in. Although some of these therapies may be useful, others can be not so useful or even harmful. Contrary reactions of many CAM therapies are not well known because patients with diabetes often take various diabetes medications, there occurs budding for herbal medicine and herb dietary habit supplement interactions, leading to contrary events.