The role of traditional medicine practice in primary health care within Aboriginal Australia: a review of the literature [PDF]
This literature review attempts to identify and examine, both qualitatively and quantitatively, traditional medicine practices within Aboriginal Australia today.AbstractThe practice of traditional Aboriginal medicine within Australia is at risk of being ...
Stefanie J Oliver
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Traditional medicines in psychiatry [PDF]
Our theme for this issue concerns the use of traditional medicines in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in three regions of the world: Africa (Alan Haworth), Bangladesh (Michael Radford) and Singapore (Ee Heok Kua and Chay Hoon Tan).
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Biopiracy versus one-world medicine – from colonial relicts to global collaborative concepts [PDF]
Background: Practices of biopiracy to use genetic resources and indigenous knowledge by Western companies without benefit-sharing of those, who generated the traditional knowledge, can be understood as form of neocolonialism.Hypothesis: : The One-World ...
Abdelfatah, Sara +40 more
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Traditional medicine and genomics
'Omics' developments in the form of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics have increased the impetus of traditional medicine research. Studies exploring the genomic, proteomic and metabolomic basis of human constitutional types based on Ayurveda and other systems of oriental medicine are becoming popular.
Kalpana Joshi +2 more
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Examining the Association Between Traditional and Mainstream Medicine and the Prevalence of Arthritis in the Urban Indigenous Population Living in Toronto [PDF]
Background: In the Indigenous community, the prevalence of arthritis is 1.3 to 1.6 times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Moreover, minimal population health information on urban Indigenous peoples is available.
Chen, Julio Cristian
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Traditional Methods of Protecting the Infant and Child Illness/Disease Among the Wazigua at Mvomero Ward, Morogoro, Region, Tanzania [PDF]
Even though child and infant protection against health problems using various methods is as old as mankind, there is limited literature on traditional methods used to protect infant and child in Tanzania.
Kayombo , E.J.
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Radical liberal values-based practice. [PDF]
Values based practice is a radical view of the place of values in medicine which develops from a philosophical analysis of values, illness and the role of ethical principles. It denies two attractive and traditional views of medicine: that diagnosis is a
Beauchamp +15 more
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African traditional medicine and western medicine and infant health in Ghana [PDF]
Only abstract. Paper copies of master’s theses are listed in the Helka database (http://www.helsinki.fi/helka). Electronic copies of master’s theses are either available as open access or only on thesis terminals in the Helsinki University Library.Vain ...
Mensah-Abrambah, Emmanuel
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Traditional Family History & Training - Part 1 [PDF]
While Ayurveda is an ancient system of medicine, training for it involves many years of study as well as apprenticeship. The apprenticeship could run in the family, as from father to son, or in a more formal setting, as with an acclaimed teacher.
Joshi, Himanshu +3 more
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Current status of herbal and their future perspectives [PDF]
Traditional medicine is the synthesis of therapeutic experience of generations of practicing physicians of indigenous systems of medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, many infectious diseases have been treated with herbals.
Ponnampalam Gopalakrishnakone +1 more
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