Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM in Psychiatry Guest Editors: Jörg Melzer, Hans-Christian Deter, and Bernhard Uehleke CAM in Psychiatry Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM in Psychiatry Guest Editors: Jorg¨ Melzer, Hans-Christian Deter, and Bernhard Uehleke Copyright © 2013 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Terje Alraek, Norway Anwarul H. Gilani, Pakistan Andreas Michalsen, Germany Shrikant Anant, USA Michael Goldstein, USA David Mischoulon, USA Sedigheh Asgary, Iran Svein Haavik, Norway Hyung-In Moon, Republic of Korea Hyunsu Bae, Republic of Korea Seung-Heon Hong, Korea Albert Moraska, USA Lijun Bai, China Markus Horneber, Germany Mark Moss, UK Sarang Bani, India Ching-Liang Hsieh, Taiwan MinKyun Na, Republic of Korea Vassya Bankova, Bulgaria Benny T. K. Huat, Singapore Richard L. Nahin, USA Winfried Banzer, Germany Roman Huber, Germany Vitaly Napadow, USA Vernon A. Barnes, USA Angelo Antonio Izzo, Italy F. R. F. Nascimento, Brazil Jairo K. Bastos, Brazil K. Jarukamjorn, Thailand Isabella Neri, Italy Sujit Basu, USA Stefanie Joos, Germany Telesphore´ B. Nguelefack, Cameroon David Baxter, New Zealand Z. Kain, USA Martin Offenbacher, Germany Andre-Michael Beer, Germany Osamu Kanauchi, Japan Ki-Wan Oh, Republic of Korea Alvin J. Beitz, USA Krishna Kaphle, Nepal Y. Ohta, Japan Yong C. Boo, Republic of Korea Kenji Kawakita, Japan Olumayokun A. Olajide, UK Francesca Borrelli, Italy Jong Y. Kim, Republic of Korea Thomas Ostermann, Germany Gloria Brusotti, Italy Youn C. Kim, Republic of Korea Stacey A. Page, Canada Arndt Bussing,¨ Germany C.-H. Kim, Republic of Korea Tai-Long Pan, Taiwan Raffaele Capasso, Italy Yoshiyuki Kimura, Japan Bhushan Patwardhan, India Opher Caspi, Israel Toshiaki Kogure, Japan BeritS.Paulsen,Norway Shun-Wan Chan, Hong Kong Ching Lan, Taiwan Andrea Pieroni, Italy Il-Moo Chang, Republic of Korea Alfred Langler,¨ Germany Richard Pietras, USA Rajnish Chaturvedi, India Lixing Lao, USA Xianqin Qu, Australia Tzeng-Ji Chen, Taiwan Jang-Hern Lee, Republic of Korea Cassandra L. Quave, USA Yunfei Chen, China Myeong S. Lee, UK Roja Rahimi, Iran Kevin Chen, USA Tat leang Lee, Singapore Khalid Rahman, UK Juei-Tang Cheng, Taiwan Christian Lehmann, Canada Cheppail Ramachandran, USA Evan P. Cherniack, USA Marco Leonti, Italy Ke Ren, USA Jen-Hwey Chiu, Taiwan Ping-Chung Leung, Hong Kong Mee-Ra Rhyu, Republic of Korea WilliamC.S.Cho,HongKong ChunGuang Li, Australia JoseLuisR´ ´ıos, Spain Jae Youl Cho, Korea Xiu-Min Li, USA Paolo R. di Sarsina, Italy Shuang-En Chuang, Taiwan Shao Li, China Bashar Saad, Palestinian Authority Edwin L. Cooper, USA Sabina Lim, Korea A. Sandner-Kiesling, Austria Vincenzo De Feo, Italy Wen Chuan Lin, China Adair Santos, Brazil Roc´ıo De la P. Vazquez,´ Spain Christopher G. Lis, USA G. Schmeda-Hirschmann, Chile Alexandra Deters, Germany Gerhard Litscher, Austria Rosa Schnyer, USA Mohamed Eddouks, Morocco I-Min Liu, Taiwan Andrew Scholey, Australia Tobias Esch, Germany Ke Liu, China Veronique Seidel, UK Yibin Feng, Hong Kong Yijun Liu, USA Senthamil R. Selvan, USA J. Fernandez-Carnero, Spain Gaofeng Liu, China Tuhinadri Sen, India Juliano Ferreira, Brazil Gail B. Mahady, USA Ronald Sherman, USA Peter Fisher, UK Subhash C. Mandal, India Karen J. Sherman, USA Romain Forestier, France Jeanine Marnewick, South Africa Kan Shimpo, Japan Joel J. Gagnier, Canada Virginia S. Martino, Argentina Byung-Cheul Shin, Korea Muhammad N. Ghayur, Pakistan James H. McAuley, Australia Rachid Soulimani, France Mohd R. Sulaiman, Malaysia Mani Vasudevan, Malaysia Haruki Yamada, Japan Venil N. Sumantran, India Carlo Ventura, Italy Nobuo Yamaguchi, Japan Toku Takahashi, USA Wagner Vilegas, Brazil Yong-Qing Yang, China Rabih Talhouk, Lebanon Pradeep Visen, Canada Ken Yasukawa, Japan Che Chun Tao, USA Aristo Vojdani, USA M. Yoon, Republic of Korea Mei Tian, China Chong-Zhi Wang, USA Hong Q. Zhang, Hong Kong Yao Tong, Hong Kong Shu-Ming Wang, USA Boli Zhang, China K. V. Trinh, Canada Y. Wang, USA Ruixin Zhang, USA Volkan Tugcu, Turkey Chenchen Wang, USA Hong Zhang, Sweden Yew-Min Tzeng, Taiwan Kenji Watanabe, Japan Haibo Zhu, China Dawn M. Upchurch, USA W. Weidenhammer, Germany Alfredo Vannacci, Italy Jenny M. 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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Aspects of Psychiatry the development of modern medicine, traditional medicine was regarded as an old fashioned way of practice and In western countries, the 19th century marks a turning point theory, and consequently, traditional medicine mostly was for the beginning of psychiatry as an academic discipline. not taught at medical schools and universities. Only few Since this happened and psychiatry had left the asylums chairs or colleges for naturopathy or homeopathy in the at the boundaries not only of cities but medicine itself, we US and some single chairs in Europe for hydrotherapy or can find quite a row of examples concerning integration [1]. naturopathy can be regarded as an exception to the rule in Psychiatry has integrated many treatments into the thera- the 19th and 20th century. Nevertheless, traditional medicine peutic spectrum, for example, tricyclic antidepressants, SSRI, remained in the cultures as a kind of folk medicine often relaxation techniques like progressive muscle-relaxation or provided by lay physicians and sometimes also by physicians