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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."<ref name="WHO">{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/definitions/en/|title=Traditional Medicine: Definitions|date=2008-12-01|access-date=2014-04-20|publisher=[[World Health Organization]]|archive-date=8 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808043653/https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/definitions/en/|url-status=live}}</ref> Practices known as traditional medicines include [[Ayurveda]], [[Siddha medicine]], [[Unani]], [[Ancient Iranian Medicine|ancient Iranian medicine]], [[Irani Traditional medicine|Irani]], [[Medicine in medieval Islam|Islamic medicine]], [[traditional Chinese medicine]], [[traditional Korean medicine]], [[acupuncture]], [[Muti]], [[Ifá]], and [[traditional African medicine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Traditional Medicine-2020 {{!}} Alternative Medicine-2020 {{!}} Herbal Medicine-2020 {{!}} Naturopathic Medicine 2020 {{!}} 5th World Congress on Traditional and Alternative Medicine |url=https://www.scientificfederation.com/traditional-medicine-2020/ |website=www.scientificfederation.com |access-date=18 January 2021 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807121030/https://www.scientificfederation.com/traditional-medicine-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | 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."<ref name="WHO">{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/definitions/en/|title=Traditional Medicine: Definitions|date=2008-12-01|access-date=2014-04-20|publisher=[[World Health Organization]]|archive-date=8 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808043653/https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/definitions/en/|url-status=live}}</ref> Practices known as traditional medicines include [[Ayurveda]], [[Siddha medicine]], [[Unani]], [[Ancient Iranian Medicine|ancient Iranian medicine]], [[Irani Traditional medicine|Irani]], [[Medicine in medieval Islam|Islamic medicine]], [[traditional Chinese medicine]], [[traditional Korean medicine]], [[acupuncture]], [[Muti]], [[Ifá]], and [[traditional African medicine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Traditional Medicine-2020 {{!}} Alternative Medicine-2020 {{!}} Herbal Medicine-2020 {{!}} Naturopathic Medicine 2020 {{!}} 5th World Congress on Traditional and Alternative Medicine |url=https://www.scientificfederation.com/traditional-medicine-2020/ |website=www.scientificfederation.com |access-date=18 January 2021 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807121030/https://www.scientificfederation.com/traditional-medicine-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
| − | The WHO stated that "inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects" and that "further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety" of several of the practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems.<ref name = WHO/> Practitioners of traditional medicine are not authorized to practice medicine in India unless trained at a qualified medical institution, registered with the government, and listed as registered physicians annually in [[The Gazette of India]].<ref name=agrawal/><ref name=ima14/> Identifying practitioners of traditional medicine, the Supreme Court of India stated in 2018 that "unqualified, untrained quacks are posing a great risk to the entire society and playing with the lives of people without having the requisite training and education in the science from approved institutions".<ref name=agrawal/> | + | The WHO stated that "inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects" and that "further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety" of several of the practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems.<ref name = WHO/> Practitioners of traditional medicine are not authorized to practice medicine in India unless trained at a qualified medical institution, registered with the government, and listed as registered physicians annually in [[The Gazette of India]].<ref name=agrawal/><ref name="ima14">{{cite web |title=IMA Anti Quackery |url=http://www.ima-india.org/ima/left-side-bar.php?scid=291 |publisher=Indian Medical Association |access-date=28 November 2019 |date=2014 |archive-date=31 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131193119/http://www.ima-india.org/ima/left-side-bar.php?scid=291 |url-status=live }}</ref> Identifying practitioners of traditional medicine, the Supreme Court of India stated in 2018 that "unqualified, untrained quacks are posing a great risk to the entire society and playing with the lives of people without having the requisite training and education in the science from approved institutions".<ref name=agrawal/> |
Evidence on the effectiveness of the alternative medicine practice of [[acupuncture]] is "variable and inconsistent" for any condition,<ref name=Colquhoun2013>{{cite journal | vauthors = Colquhoun D, Novella SP | title = Acupuncture is theatrical placebo | journal = Anesthesia and Analgesia | volume = 116 | issue = 6 | pages = 1360–3 | date = June 2013 | pmid = 23709076 | doi = 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828f2d5e | s2cid = 207135491 | url = http://www.dcscience.net/Colquhoun-Novella-A&A-2013.pdf | author-link = David Colquhoun | access-date = 18 August 2021 | archive-date = 20 November 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181120055409/http://www.dcscience.net/Colquhoun-Novella-A%26A-2013.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref> but is generally safe when done by an appropriately trained practitioner.<ref name="nciacupuncture">{{cite web|title=Acupuncture (PDQ®)|url=http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/acupuncture/healthprofessional/page6|publisher=[[National Cancer Institute]]|access-date=15 Sep 2013|date=2005-09-23|archive-date=29 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929100111/http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/acupuncture/HealthProfessional/page6|url-status=live}}</ref> | Evidence on the effectiveness of the alternative medicine practice of [[acupuncture]] is "variable and inconsistent" for any condition,<ref name=Colquhoun2013>{{cite journal | vauthors = Colquhoun D, Novella SP | title = Acupuncture is theatrical placebo | journal = Anesthesia and Analgesia | volume = 116 | issue = 6 | pages = 1360–3 | date = June 2013 | pmid = 23709076 | doi = 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828f2d5e | s2cid = 207135491 | url = http://www.dcscience.net/Colquhoun-Novella-A&A-2013.pdf | author-link = David Colquhoun | access-date = 18 August 2021 | archive-date = 20 November 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181120055409/http://www.dcscience.net/Colquhoun-Novella-A%26A-2013.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref> but is generally safe when done by an appropriately trained practitioner.<ref name="nciacupuncture">{{cite web|title=Acupuncture (PDQ®)|url=http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/acupuncture/healthprofessional/page6|publisher=[[National Cancer Institute]]|access-date=15 Sep 2013|date=2005-09-23|archive-date=29 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929100111/http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/acupuncture/HealthProfessional/page6|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||
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Medicine is the science[1] and practice[2] of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.[3]
There are different perspectives, systems and cultures in medicine. There is a mainstream based on western thought and science, sometimes called mainstream medicine or conventional medicine. Besides that there are systems with different cultural origin, or different paradigms. These bear different names like traditional medicine, alternative medicine or complementary medicine. An impulse of integration of different medical approaches lives in integrative medicine.
Traditional 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."[4] Practices known as traditional medicines include Ayurveda, Siddha medicine, Unani, ancient Iranian medicine, Irani, Islamic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Korean medicine, acupuncture, Muti, Ifá, and traditional African medicine.[5]
The WHO stated that "inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects" and that "further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety" of several of the practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems.[4] Practitioners of traditional medicine are not authorized to practice medicine in India unless trained at a qualified medical institution, registered with the government, and listed as registered physicians annually in The Gazette of India.[6][7] Identifying practitioners of traditional medicine, the Supreme Court of India stated in 2018 that "unqualified, untrained quacks are posing a great risk to the entire society and playing with the lives of people without having the requisite training and education in the science from approved institutions".[6]
Evidence on the effectiveness of the alternative medicine practice of acupuncture is "variable and inconsistent" for any condition,[8] but is generally safe when done by an appropriately trained practitioner.[9]
references
- ↑ Firth, John (2020). "Science in medicine: when, how, and what". Oxford textbook of medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198746690.
- ↑ Saunders J (June 2000). "The practice of clinical medicine as an art and as a science". Med Humanit. 26 (1): 18–22. doi:10.1136/mh.26.1.18. PMID 12484313. S2CID 73306806.
- ↑ "Dictionary, medicine". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 Dec 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Traditional Medicine: Definitions". World Health Organization. 2008-12-01. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
- ↑ "Traditional Medicine-2020 | Alternative Medicine-2020 | Herbal Medicine-2020 | Naturopathic Medicine 2020 | 5th World Congress on Traditional and Alternative Medicine". www.scientificfederation.com. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedagrawal - ↑ "IMA Anti Quackery". Indian Medical Association. 2014. Archived from the original on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ↑ Colquhoun D, Novella SP (June 2013). "Acupuncture is theatrical placebo" (PDF). Anesthesia and Analgesia. 116 (6): 1360–3. doi:10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828f2d5e. PMID 23709076. S2CID 207135491. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ↑ "Acupuncture (PDQ®)". National Cancer Institute. 2005-09-23. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 15 Sep 2013.