Traditional and Complementary Medicine

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Title

Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Subject

Science: general issues

Description

Modern medicine has reached a point where the patient is not treated as a biopsychosocial-spiritual being but rather is seen as a virtual identity consisting of laboratory findings and images. More focus is placed on relieving the symptoms instead of curing the disease. Mostly, patients are turned into lifetime medication-dependent individuals. New medicines are needed to overcome the side effects, complications, resistance, and intolerance caused by pharmacological and interventional therapies. In hopes of drug-free and painless alternative treatments with fewer complications, there has been a trend to revisit traditional methods that have been dismissed by modern medicine. Traditional medicine has to be reevaluated with modern scientific methods to complement and integrate with evidence-based modern medicine

Creator

Mordeniz, Cengiz (editor)

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/67124

Publisher

IntechOpen
https://www.intechopen.com/

Date

2019

Contributor

Sugiati

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Identifier

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.78452
ISBN: 9781789853773, 9781789841831, 9781789853780

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