Different Views on Traditional Indigenous Medicine and Modern Medicine; the Coexistence of These Different Medical Practices: A Case Study on a Patient

Autor: Md. Abdul Hoque
Rok vydání: 2021
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5294597
Popis: Two systems of treatment for an ailment exist in today’s world. One is modern medicine and another is traditional indigenous medicine which refers to Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, etc. Many people went broke in the name of treatment which ultimately refers to modern or allopathic treatment. It involves various diagnoses, tests, expensive medication, or surgery. In this case, the burnt of the financial burden is enormous. On the contrary, traditional indigenous medicine has less impact financially. As far as the effectiveness is concerned the methods have both successful and unsuccessful stories. Even for an individual, in some cases, allopathic is giving him a cure while some illness remains unhealed that he treated with traditional medicine and came up with success. Modern medicine may have superiority nevertheless it is not possible to conclude that any method of treatment as all the cures for all sorts of ailments. The co-existence of both methods proved to be beneficial to the people. On the background of changing profile of diseases integration of traditional medicine and modern medicine is a call of time. Both the systems can be used in support of one another.
Databáze: OpenAIRE