Integrative Medicine and Alternative treatments

Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine is also known as folk or indigenous medicine. The essential aspect of this folk medicine is to have an idea of body physiology, health and healing practices to be used in treatment of a disease or a person in whole. It is similarly a home remedy, which can be used in a treatment to cure a disease or ailment which contains vegetables, spices or other common properties that may or may not contain medicinal properties. This has been more prevalent based upon their culture and usage. Traditional medicine has been used for thousands of years with great contributions made by practitioners to human health, particularly as primary health care providers at the community level. TM has maintained its popularity worldwide and since the 1990s its use has surged in many developed and developing countries.