Colic: CAM Therapies for Specific Conditions

• Homeopathy has always been considered particularly helpful for children. It is reported to resolve, gently and effectively, such problems as recurrent colic.
  
  
• A small body of published clinical evidence now suggests that spinal manipulation might be helpful for infantile colic. In a study cited in a 1994 issue of Consumer Reports, 316 babies with infant colic were treated with spinal manipulation, and almost all got better within two weeks. However, the study had several design flaws.

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From THE BEST ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: WHAT WORKS? WHAT DOES NOT? by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier.
Copyright © 2000 by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York.

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