The goal of this study is making the value of Mongolian people about
Mongolian traditional medicine (TM) and non-traditional medicine (NTM).
Totally, 694 citizens involved from Ulaanbaatar city, Nalaikh District and 7
provinces (Selenge, Darkhan, Sukhbaatar, GoviAltai, Tov, Zavhan,
Dundgovi, and Hovsgol) of Mongolia. The citizens included with age
between 20-70. We used of questionnaire randomly, from February to
May of 2015. The 69.1% of 694 citizens was between the 20-40 age, and
63% were female and 37% were male. In this study, the 43% of all
subjects was described to use both all medicines and 25% was traditional
medicine, 32% was non-traditional medicine. However, in the cancer
14,8% was nontraditional medicine, 20.6% traditional medicine, 31.8%
was used a combination of traditional medicine and non traditional
medicine. The 58% of all subjects describe to an know that evaluate to
diagnose by pulse palpation, to evaluating the image, using traditional
drugs and other methods. The 60% of all subjects describe that treatment
advantage Traditional medicine and 40% non-traditional medicine.
Whether the adverse effects of treatment, 38% wasn’t of traditional
medicine and 32% wasn’t non-traditional medicine. To getting the
information about traditional medicine, 86% was from own families,
friends and journal, and 14% from other sources. Most of the citizens (43
%) used a combination of TM and NTM. The satisfaction was 60% for TM,
this seems to be caused of closer to the patient .