Exploring Traditional Medicine Practices

Traditional medicine encompasses cultural healing practices and therapies handed down through generations, often using natural remedies and holistic approaches.
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Prepared by Shruti Sahoo, reviewed by Dr. Eugene Smith

Traditional Medicine FAQ


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Why is traditional medicine important?

Understanding traditional medicine can help health care professionals create sustainable, personalized and culturally respectful practices. In many countries, traditional medicine costs less and is more accessible than conventional health care.

What are the categories of traditional medicines?

Category 2: Traditional medicines currently used in the community that are prepared in advance and composed of crude raw plant materials. Category 3: Standardized plant extracts prepared in advance and supported by scientific research. Category 4: Isolated pure compound molecules from traditional medicines following scientific research.

What are some examples of folk medicine traditions?

Examples of folk medicine traditions are traditional Chinese medicine, Iranian traditional medicine, traditional Korean medicine, Arabic indigenous medicine, Uyghur traditional medicine, Japanese Kampō medicine, traditional Aboriginal bush medicine, Native Hawaiian Lāʻau lapaʻau, and Georgian folk medicine, among others.

What is traditional medicine in Australia?

Traditional medicine practice (TMP) within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australia encompasses a holistic world view. This reflects that of the World Health Organization which defines health as ‘physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ .

What is traditional medicine?

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.

What is indigenous traditional medicine?

“Indigenous traditional medicine” was defined as the sum total of knowledge and practices, whether explicable or not, used in diagnosing, preventing or eliminating physical, mental and social diseases. This knowledge or practice may rely exclusively on past experience and observation handed down orally or in writing from generation to generation.

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