Journal of North Khorasan

Abstract Background & Objectives: complementary and alternative medicine is a set of procedures for diagnosis, treatment or prevention, and healthy lifestyle and natural. Due to the being holistic, along with conventional medicine is used around the world to reinforce it. Material & Methods: This comprehensive review was conducted based on extensive search of databases including Scopus, Pub med, Science direct, Google scholar and Iran medex by using keywords such as complementary and alternative medicine, touch therapy, nursing. Relevant articles were selected based on the relationship of articles and expert comments. Results: The purpose of complementary and alternative medicine is health promotion and quality of life with increase life span with using natural approaches and different methods according to clinical experience and research. Touch therapy is a therapeutic intervention for human energy management and its clinical concepts is supported by the Rogers’ theory of Unitary Human Beings. Complementary medicine can be used to facilitate the therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient through building trust and enhancing communication. Conclusion: Today complementary medicine has simply provided the opportunity for nurses in holistic care. Health care providers can play a more effective role in achieving care and therapeutic targets by identification of complementary and alternative medicine.