Traditional And Complementary Medicine

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.

• | Author: Cengiz Mordeniz, Cengiz Mordeniz
• | Publisher: Intechopen
• | Publication Date: Dec 11, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1789841836
• | ISBN-13: 9781789841831