More and more patients are turning toward alternative medicine because modern medicine is expensive and has failed to treat diseases such as cancer, said Abdullah Al-Badah, executive director of the national society for complementary and alternative medicine. <\/p>\n
He said 67 percent of alternative medicine users are women. <\/p>\n
According to him the forms of alternative medicine practiced in the Kingdom include Qur'an recitation, honey applications, Nigella sativa oil and garlic. <\/p>\n
He said there are more forms of alternative practices including acupuncture, oil treatment and massage. <\/p>\n
He said it was important for practitioners of alternative medicine to be licensed. Any unqualified exercises can result in complications, disability, poisoning and death, he said. Al-Badah was speaking at Hamad Al-Jasser's weekly forum in Riyadh. <\/p>\n
The medical methods used by practitioners to diagnose and treat people still have to be scientifically proven to be safe. <\/p>\n
Al-Badah explained to the audience that alternative medicine practices were in vogue in ancient China, Egypt, India and Greece. <\/p>\n
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