Methods Of Traditional Medicine Research Articles

Public Health and the Politics of Knowledge: The Role of Traditional Medicine in the Management of COVID-19 in Two South Indian States

Public health discourse about COVID-19 pandemic has mostly been framed around biomedical interventions, although there is evidence of the effective use of traditional medicine (TM) to manage the pandemic by some Asian countries such as China, Thailand, Vietnam and India. This article aims to place on record the policy of medical pluralism in the two South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in their respective deployment of Siddha and Ayurveda in the management of COVID-19. Based on interviews with physicians of TM and health administrators, press reports, social media posts and published research, this article reconstructs the crucial yet undocumented process of incorporating TM in the biomedicine-based health bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu and Kerala to deal with infectious fevers such as dengue and chikungunya in the past and COVID-19 in the present. It is our argument that those methods of TM which are safe and in long recent use could provide low-cost and accessible means of prevention and early treatment of infectious fevers. They have to be identified and subjected to further investigation as innovations in social medicine brought forth by the state and its officials and are different from the highly expensive projects of the corporate pharmaceutical sector.

Use of traditional medicine in the population attending a children's hospital in the City of Buenos Aires.

Several studies have reported on the widespread use of traditional medicine (TM) in different countries. Pediatricians receive scarce training in this field. To describe the characteristics of TM used by patients attending a children's hospital in the City of Buenos Aires. Qualitative design based on grounded theory. Interview with caregivers of children aged 0-11 years. Thirty people from different communities were interviewed, mostly homemakers. Almost all referred having used TM. The most common source of recommendation was the family. In general, TM use precedes the visit to a physician in the health system. TM is used to manage conditions defined by conventional medicine, but also to treat folk illnesses such as Simeon's disease, evil eye, and indigestion. Therapeutic practices include plant-based preparations, infusions, broths, as well as other rituals performed by folk healers. All users had a positive opinion about TM. Most interviewees considered that physicians should know and ask about TM. All participants referred that its use had not been addressed in prior visits. TM spreads as knowledge and/ or practice across the studied population and is part of everyday life. TM methods vary greatly, as well as the conditions for which it is used; the main reasons for use included gastrointestinal and respiratory conditions. It is not addressed in pediatric visits, but users wish it was.

Osvrt na naučna istraživanja o primeni tradicionalne medicine u rehabilitaciji

Traditional medicine (TM) is an expression used for a part of alternative medicine or medicine that is grounded on a folk knowledge. Regardless of the official position of the medicine, the use of methods of traditional medicine is constantly increasing, especially in the most developed countries. For example, 70% of the population in Canada and 80% in Germany are using some form of alternative or complementary medicine. In traditional medicine, the emphasis is on balance or 'harmony' in the body, since the body is associated with the earth and the cosmos which is very important for the healing process. There are contrary opinions that claim that TM is a huge collection of never proven theory. A new way of looking and interpreting of all the evidence and observations about the processes of sickness and health is necessary for proving TM. There are enormous differences between TM and conventional medicine, both in the methods used for any kind of intervention and in the way doctors and healers are trained. It is also important to note that studies in the field of TM are using norms and standards used for research in conventional medicine, which means that they are not adapted to the basic characteristics of TM. Therefore, scientific research on the importance of using TM is a continuous process. The presented research results demonstrate the positive effects of the use of TM methods in rehabilitation.

Iran's Most Important Indigenous Medicinal Plants with Diuretic Properties: An Overview of Iranian Ethnobotanical Resources

By definition, urinary retention is called the inability to completely empty urine so that the volume of residual urine after discharge is higher than 100 cc and lower than 200 cc in the elderly. For the treatment of urinary retention, there are different therapeutic methods, such as traditional medicine and complementary therapies. One of the methods of traditional medicine is using medicinal plants. Medicinal herbs are effective on the treatment of many diseases due to their active and antioxidant ingredients. Many native medicinal plants of Iran are effective on the treatment of urinary retention and have diuretic properties. Thus, in this review, the effective medicinal plants of Iranian ethnobotanical resources on hemorrhoid were reported. In the present review study, a search for articles by the keywords hemorrhoid, ethnobotanical, and medicinal plants was done. A search on the databases, such as Scopus, ISI C, S ID, Mega Iran, and a number of other databases was performed. Search the databases, such as databases including Scopus, ISI C, S ID, and a number of other sites were Mgayran. Based on the results obtained, 45 herbs from different parts of Iran are traditionally used to treat urinary retention. Such medicinal plants as chicory, nettles, sorrel, milk, cheese, oleander, wild pistachio, fumitory, jujube, basil, nigella seeds, licorice, etc. are of the effective herbs.

Clinical application of traditional herbal medicine in five countries and regions: Japan; South Korea; Mainland China; Hong Kong, China; Taiwan, China

ObjectiveTo study the characteristics of the clinical application of traditional herbal medicine in five countries and regions where traditional medicine (TM) is widely used: Japan; South Korea; mainland China; Hong Kong, China; Taiwan, China. And to analyze, from multiple angles, the variations in the methods of TM used in each countries and regions. MethodsFifty commonly used traditional herbs (TOP50) from classical formulae were selected, and descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, and Friedman test were used to compare methods of clinical application and dosages in the countries and regions of interest based on a retrospective review of randomly-selected medical records. ResultsThere were significant differences in sequencing TOP50 among the five countries and regions (P < .01). The adherence to the classical formulae, from strong to weak was Japan; mainland China; Taiwan, China; Hong Kong, China; South Korea. There were also significant differences in TOP50 dosing regimens (P < .01). Overall dosages of TOP50 from high to low were: mainland China; Hong Kong, China; Taiwan, China; South Korea; Japan. Finally, there were significant differences in the dosage intervals (P < .01), with dosage intervals from maximum to minimum as follows: mainland China; Taiwan, China; Hong Kong, China; South Korea; Japan. ConclusionsThe clinical dosages of traditional herbal medicine used in the mainland China are relatively large compared with those prescribed in the other four countries and regions, and the range of dosages in mainland China is more flexible. On the other hand, clinical dosages of TOP50 are the lowest in Japan, where the dosage range is also the narrowest, supporting the idea that Doctors of Kampo medicine are highly cautious and are likely to adhere strictly to classical formulae, while Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, China are in the middle. The dosage of TOP50 in South Korea is significantly lower than that used in the mainland China; Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, China where the adherence to the classical formulae was the lowest, albeit slightly higher than that in Japan. The methods of clinical application of traditional herbal medicine in the five countries and regions were affected by multiple factors, including history, geography, climate, and culture.