Benefits of traditional medicine processing: to make materia medica more pure; to increase or decrease yin and yang attributes; to influence on meridian; to stabilize active ingredients; to change property and effect; to enhance effectiveness; chemically change ; to reduce toxicity; to make materia medica more brittle and easy to grind; to remove uncomfortable smell
Medicine, Traditional

Although the modern medicine has progressed for a long time, there are empirical studies shows the effectiveness of traditional and complementary treatments (TCT) in curing chronic diseases. In Malaysia, TCT is often related to the use of herbs and meditation that vary according to ethnicity. Each ethnic group has its own beliefs system in curing diseases. This study mainly aims to provide an overview on the perceptions of the effectiveness TCT in curing chronic diseases. The authors used electronic database to select 10 journal articles according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Findings show the highest statistic among Sabah natives and followed by Malay ethnic on believing in the effectiveness of TCT. Price and encouragement from family and friends are the main influencing factors of taking TCT. We suggest that counsellors need to be aware of the TCT practices on particular culture in order to increase respect and trust in the helping relationships.
Traditional Treatment

Culture possesses multiple functions in psychotherapeutic processes: (1) it creates specific sources of stress, (2) it provides specific modes of coping with distress, (3) it governs social responses to distress and disability, (4) it defines the symptoms of distress and psychopathology, (5) it determines the interpretation of symptoms and their subsequent biological, psychological, and social impacts, (6) it guides help-seeking and the response to treatment, and (7) it shapes the meaning of the illness experience. Psychotherapy, therefore, involves processes that are informed by the patient's culture. Indigenous psychotherapies could be found in many societies and they may be used alone or in conjunction with Western modalities of treatment. In the Philippines, psychotherapists largely employ Western models of psychotherapy. This paper describes some indigenous healing rituals and discusses the psychosocial framework that lends efficacy in the treatment modalities for psychological problems. Furthermore, this paper also aims to integrate this framework into the current practice of psychotherapy in the Philippines and provide recommendations vis-a-vis training, service, and research in the field of psychotherapy.
MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL

This paper introduced DaiTu district, ThaiNguyen province, including pain, digestive disease, goiter, fever, body impairment, skin disease, urinary diseases, respiratory diseases, malnutrition, epilepsy and snake bite. The use of traditional was very poor, mainly domestic medicine and acupuncture. The factors influenced on it comprised health staffs, knowledge of traditional medicine, availability of medicinal plant, communication in the community
Medicine, Traditional ; epidemiology ; Medicine, Traditional

Recent years, in the light of the modern scientific knowledge, own opinions of health and illness expand more and more, methods for preventing, treating illness and improved health also become more abundant and various. However, if going deeply to study ideology of ancient people, especially in Philosopher and the ancient Orient medicine, we can see that established a pretty comprehensive opinion of health and ill issues in early stage by the Orient people: coming from its content to establish preventing, treating and developing health methods. Studying opinions of ancient people to health and illness have a great significance into Vietnamese population’s health care work in recent period.
Medicine, Traditional ; Health ; Medicine, Oriental Traditional ; Orientation

In countries with ancient civilization of both Eastern world and Western world, after the accumulation of clinical experiences of "empirical medicine" to a sufficient amount; in accordance of their primitive philosophical thoughts, classical medical theories were established to play an important role in guiding the clinical practice of "empirical medicine". Because of the similarity of philosophical thoughts all over the ancient world, their medical theories were also very similar to each other. After the scientific evaluation and improvement, Greek classical medical theories were inherited, refined or abandoned, and then eventually finished their historical mission. Chinese classical medical theories also need the similar scientific identification and improvement for flowing into the authorized main stream of modern medical theory systems to continuously apply their guiding roles in clinical practice. Scholars would better consider the developmental principles of cultures and sciences with a historical viewpoint and an open mind to avoid making mistakes from haughty and prejudice.
Greece ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Medicine, Traditional

Ethnomedicine is the precious wealth left by ethnic minorities in their struggle against diseases. It is similar to traditional Chinese medicine in a narrow sense and has the characteristics of multi-component,multi-target and multi-channel synergy. Under the guidance of the theory of ethnomedicine,the combination of ethnomedicine and network pharmacology will help to understand the essence of the prevention and treatment of ethnomedicines in a dynamic and holistic manner. This paper reviews the research progress of network pharmacology applied in ethnomedicine,analyses the problems and challenges existing in the application of network pharmacology in ethnomedicine research at present,such as inaccurate data and information,lack of network analysis platform for effective analysis of dose-effect relationship of chemical constituents and weak basic research of ethnomedicine,and puts forward corresponding prospects.
Ethnopharmacology ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Medicine, Traditional

Due to the profound theoretical rationale, perfect diagnosis and treatment system, and characteristic medicinal resources, Tibetan medicine has been passed down to the present day as one of the four traditional medicine systems all over the world. With the development of modern society and the change in people's concept of seeking medical services, Tibetan medicine has gradually attracted wide attention by virtue of its natural, green and safe diagnosis and treatment characteristics, which enables it to be vigo-rously developed and inherited. There are numerous ancient books on Tibetan medicine, covering a large number of ancient prescriptions, which has laid a solid foundation for later scholars to thoroughly investigate the diagnosis and treatment rules in Tibetan medicine and apply them to modern clinical practice. Screening the classic prescriptions that meet modern clinical needs from those numerous ancient books is a new direction in the inheritance and development of Tibetan medicine. On the basis of historical origin and current application status of ancient prescriptions in Tibetan medicine, this paper preliminarily elaborated the definition of classic prescriptions of Tibetan medicine and their general screening principles and precautions, and also discussed the modern inheritance paths of classic prescriptions in Tibetan medicine from basic research, post-marketing evaluation, and the development of novel preparations. Considering the shortcomings in the present study, the key technical issues mentioned need to be more deeply explored and analyzed in future studies.
Humans ; Medicine, Tibetan Traditional ; Medicine, Traditional ; Prescriptions

The study for modernization of traditional prescriptions with the help of new technology of extration and chemistry of natural compounds. With the help of new technologies, 3 traditional prescriptions – Luc Vi, Dai Bo Am, Cam Cum were modernizied. The newly prepraed product – tablets, capsules coated tablet had got pharmacopia criteria and had assured the therapentic effects, the safety thestability, the quality and the utility as the heritage of traditional medicines
Medicine, Traditional ; Chemistry ; Tablets

“Cỏ lưỡi rắn” (Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) and “lưỡi rắn hoa trắng” or “bạch hoa xà thiệt thảo” (Hedyotis diffusa Willd) are two different species. Both of them grow wildly in Viet nam. According to Viet nam traditional medicine, the species are used to make drug. They have antipyretic, detoxication effects, used in the treatment of inflammation and lesions induced by venomous bitten. Recently, the researchers determined active element in two species as ursolic acid, oleanolic acid and geniprosidic acid. These active ingredients have effect of tumor inhibition (in vivo and in vitro). In China, Hedyotis diffusa Willd was used to treat cancer
Plants, medicinal ; Medicine, Traditional