International Journal of Complementary and Integrative Health (IJCIH) is an international and peer-reviewed journal that publishes a variety of articles including original research, short communications, review articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, and letters to the editor. IJCIH provides the possibility of knowledge exchange between traditional medicine sources and modern medical advances. The journal focuses on the publication of practical, valid, and accurate research in all fields of traditional/complementary, and integrated medicine and studies in history of medicine.
Topics covered by this journal include:
- Integrative practices in health and medicine
- Efficacy and safety of traditional healing systems
- All types of complementary and alternative medicine
- Preventive medicine
- Dietary therapy/nutrition
- History, philosophy and cultural aspects of traditional medicines
- Educational aspects in complementary medicine
- Ethnomedicine, ethnopharmacology, and ethnopharmacy
- Studies on the quality, efficacy, and safety of natural products, dietary supplements, and phytopharmaceuticals
- Preparation and standardization of traditional and natural medicines
- Preclinical studies on pharmacological activities of natural products and biological mechanisms of action
- Clinical trials of traditional herbal medicine
- Innovation and policy-making in the implementation of complementary and integrative medicine