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eCAM 2008 5(4):365-366; doi:10.1093/ecam/nen073
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© 2008 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Editorial

eCAM: An Emerging Linkage with Ethnopharmacology?

Edwin L. Cooper

Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA

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When thinking about congruence, several synonyms come to mind: similarity, correspondence, equivalence, resemblance, analogy, comparison; certainly the antonym: (dissimilarity) does not. So let us compare two relevant, seemingly parallel ideas, concepts especially in the discipline of integrative and complementary medicine. In recent discussions, it proved useful to examine in some depth, what may seem superficial but that probably represents a true and future linkage or congruence. A quick reading of published works does suggest congruence perhaps not immediate, but clearly interdependence and sometimes overlap. Perhaps for one of the two, they dig like . . . [Full Text of this Article]

For reprints and all correspondence: Edwin L. Cooper, Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763, USA. Tel: +1-310-825-9567; Fax: +1-310-825-222; E-mail: ecam@mednet.ucla.edu


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