In severe pancreatitis, however, activated enzymes may travel back into the pancreas and digest it. We will talk more about pancreatitis in a little bit, but for now, consider alcohol. Regular consumption of alcohol inflames the pancreas. When the inflammation is severe, the smaller ducts of the pancreas are squeezed shut.
Any therapy that is typically excluded by conventional medicine, and that patients use instead of conventional medicine, is known as âalternative medicine.â Itâs a catch-all term that includes hundreds of old and new practices ranging from acupuncture to homeopathy to iridology.
CAM is an abbreviation of complementary and alternative medicine. It has also been called sCAM or SCAM with the addition of so-called or supplements. The words balance and holism are often used, claiming to take into account a whole person, in contrast to the supposed reductionism of medicine.