Traditional Medicine Homeopathy Herbal Medicine TRUTH!
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Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises knowledge
systems that developed over generations within various societies before the
era of modern medicine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of
the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the
theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable
or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis,
improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness.
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann based
on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), whereby a
substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms
in sick people.
Homeopathy is a pseudoscience, a system that asserts
itself to
be a set of scientific doctrines but that is not effective for any condition.
Large-scale studies have found homeopathic preparations to be no more effective
than a placebo, suggesting that positive feelings after taking homeopathic medicines are due
to the placebo effect and normal recovery from illness.
Herbalism ("herbology" or "herbal medicine") is use of plants for medicinal purposes, and
the study of such use.
Plants have been the basis for medical treatments
through much of human history, and such traditional medicine is still widely practiced today.
Modern medicine recognizes herbalism as a form of alternative medicine,
as the practice of herbalism is not strictly based on evidence gathered using the scientific
method.
Modern medicine, does, however, make use of many plant-derived
compounds as
the basis for evidence-tested pharmaceutical drugs, and phytotherapy works to apply modern
standards of effectiveness testing to
herbs and medicines
that are derived from natural sources.
The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include fungal and bee products,
as
well
as minerals, shells
and certain
animal parts.
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