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Complementary and alternative Medicine or CAM, to use the official term created at a consensus conference of the NIH10, is very popular in Germany as well as in other European countries and in the US3,4,5. Moreover, in Germany popularity of CAM has a long history: as a matter of fact homeopathy and naturopathy have it’s origin here.
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Albrecht, H. (2001). Alternative Medicine in Germany. In: Willich, S.N., Elm, S. (eds) Medical Challenges for the New Millennium. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9708-1_4
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