Insegnare nelle Università la Fitoterapia e l’Agopuntura?

According to National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) of NIH, the CAM terms are used to mean the array of health care approaches with a history of use or origins outside of mainstream medicine. Numerous surveys document high level of interest in use of CAM among the Western public, hence raising the matter of their study in the medical education. Several scientists have subjected CAM interventions to the same methodological scrutiny responsible for the progress of Western clinical medicine (that is evidence based), i.e. with the standard of randomized controlled trials. So, the purpose of this paper was to review the scientific evidences of two particular CAM, Phytotherapy and Acupuncture, to evaluate their possible involvement in the medical education.l