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Therapy on Trial: Quiz

 
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Be your own expert

The first step to telling the serious healers from the snake-oil salesmen is to learn to talk the talk.

Placebo or cure-all?

If you turn your back on conventional medicine, will you get better? We put alternative therapy on trial.

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1. When was homeopathy first invented?



2. What is a "placebo"?



3. Which of the following is NOT a form of yoga?



4. Reflexology treatment takes place where on the body?



5. In clinical trials of new treatments, what does it mean if the trials are "double-blind"?



6. Which of the following originated in China?



7. In alternative therapy, what are the "chakras"?



8. Ayurvedic Medicine originated in which country?



9. Which of the following treatments is NOT a herbal remedy?



10. What is, or what are, Pilates?





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