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To Doctors' Chagrin, Russians Avoid Folk Medicine

To Doctors' Chagrin, Russians Avoid Folk MedicinePosted by Marisa Belger on April 21, 2006 - 10:22am.

You can keep alternative medicine down, but that doesn't mean that it will disappear. Though the Soviet government once banned most forms of unconventional medicine, healers, physics, homeopathic clinics, and herbal therapists were back in action soon after perestroika lifted the regulations. CAM therapies are currently so popular in Russia that the allopathic medical community is feeling duly threatened - and concerned.



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