Executive Magazine
medicine for some time in Lebanon: alternative medicine. Though it is not
controversial, alternative medicine is still seen as a complement to traditional medicine. Long a fixture of the Lebanese traditional scene, with stories, and for some, memories of elder Lebanese concocting herbal remedies and using plants as alternative ways to treat disease, alternative medicine is not novel in Lebanon.
Nevertheless, the alternative medicine scene in Lebanon has mostly grown in later years due to the emergence of traditional or “Asian” forms of medicine, adding to the more traditional Lebanese remedies that were once more common. Results from a Lebanese national survey published by the Hindawi Publishing Corporation from 2015 reported that out of the respondent, almost 30% reported using Complementary and Alternative medicine in the past 12 months, defined as biologically based practices including substances found in nature, such as herbs, dietary supplements,