Therapy on Trial: Quiz
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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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Test your knowledge of alternative therapies
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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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Content last updated: 04/03/2005
