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Modernisation of the system of traditional Korean medicine (1876–1990)

Health Policy, 1998
For the past two centuries or so, the emergence and growth of scientific medicine has resulted in the gradual replacement non-scientific medical practitioners with scientific medical practitioners at the field of public health in most Western countries.
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Cancer and Traditional Medicine: An Integrative Approach

Pharmaceuticals
Despite numerous advances in treatment, cancer still remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Given the significant health and economic burden this disease imposes, it is important to explore more effective treatment strategies.
C. Sulaiman, B. George, Indira Balachandran, Heidi Abrahamse   +3 more
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Traditional medicine, professional monopoly and structural interests: a Korean case

Social Science & Medicine, 2000
Oriental medicine (OM) is a widely practised traditional healing modality across the East Asian countries. The typical operating mode of traditional medicine in the region is characterized by a relatively stable, though asymmetrical, relationship with the biomedically-oriented health care system with a varying degree of collaboration. The present paper
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Traditional Korean medicine practitioners’ attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study

European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2012
Abstract Introduction Practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are willing to use EBM as guidance for their practice. Through semi-structured interviews with physicians of traditional Korean medicine (TKM), this study sought to identify the barriers to the implementation of EBM in CAM, and solutions.
Ji Myung Woo, Seung-Hun Cho
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KORE-Map 1.0: Korean medicine Omics Resource Extension Map on transcriptome data of tonifying herbal medicine

Scientific Data
Traditional herbal medicine, rooted in a long history of use in East Asia, combines several herbs to create treatments showing high efficacy with minimal side effects, for specific diseases.
Mu-Hui Park, Sang-Min Park, Haeseung Lee, Aeyung Kim, Nooijer Kim, Y. Kim, Jin-Mu Yi, Seongwon Cha   +7 more
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Combined Use of Conventional Medicine with Traditional Korean Medicine to Treat Children with Epilepsy

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2014
Few studies have been conducted among pediatric patients to examine clinical outcomes associated with the combined use of Oriental medicine and other therapies to treat epilepsy. The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical and laboratory characteristics of children with epilepsy being treated with traditional Korean medicine (TKM) in addition
Gyu-Min, Yeon, Yun-Jin, Lee, Young Mi, Kim, Sang Ook, Nam   +3 more
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The practice of traditional Korean medicine in Washington, D.C.

Social Science & Medicine, 1989
Therapeutic relationships between Korean immigrants and their hanui, traditional Korean professional physicians, and the role adaptation of these physicians in the United States are discussed. The professional practices of four hanui who work in the Washington, D.C., area are examined through case studies.
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Integrating traditional medicine into a modern health care system

International Journal of Science and Research Archive
Traditional Medicine collectively referred to as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) when commonly used outside their traditional context, alongside other medical systems, including Western biomedicine.The World Health Organization officially ...
Maria Dalamagka
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Integrating Traditional Korean Medicine into Modern Cancer Care

2014
In spite of billions of dollars spent on cancer research each year, overall cancer incidence and cancer survival has not changed significantly in the last half century. Instead, the recent projection from the World Health Organization suggests that global cancer incidence and death is expected to double within the next decade.
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Insects and other arthropods used as drugs in Korean traditional medicine

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1999
Insects and other arthropods appear in pharmacopoeias of Korean traditional medicine, but little was known about their use in modern South Korea. Interviews were conducted with 20 traditional medicine doctors at clinics in South Korea's Kyeong Dong Shijang in Seoul--one of the world's largest traditional drug markets--to learn about current patterns of
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