%0 Journal Article %T Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Dermatology %A Bilal Do£¿an %A £¿zlem Karabudak Abuaf %A Ercan Karabacak %J Turkderm %D 2012 %I Galenos Yayincilik %X Alternative medicine is defined as the methods used independently or instead of conventional medicine, but the complementary medicine is mainly used to describe methods used in conjunction with or to comlement the conventional medical therapies.It is known by many of dermatologists that a lot of patients with dermatological problems try to use complementary and alternative medical methods because of having no cure with the conventional medical treatments. Complementary and alternative medical condition in our country was analysed and the recipe suggestions were discussed in this review. %K Complementary medicine %K alternative medicine %K CAM %K dermatology %U http://www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=turkderm&plng=tur&un=TURKDERM-26214