Traditional Medicine
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The knowledge, skills and practices, beliefs and experiences of different cultures, used to promote health, prevent diseases, and treat physical and mental illnesses.
Caution
1. They do not always document their evidence for good practice; therefore, it is difficult to:
Carefully look at their results to allow you make decisions
Decide on the appropriate amount of drug needed to manage the illness
2. They do not always have a central organisational body to regulate their profession therefore:
It is difficult to assess their suitability to their advertised duties
There are no areas to report them if things go wrong
Therapy for:
All conditions are covered
Comments
Modern day medicine came out of old practices and quite recently, new antimalarial drugs were made out of Chinese Herbs
There are still many great practices amongst traditional healers
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