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

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

This paper introduced the situation of investment for studies on the clinical medicine in the central and provincial hospital during 1996-1997 and their application. There were 1357 themes in 96 hospitals of which 76 themes of traditional medicine. There were much medical advancement applied in the diagnosis and treatment. However, there were remainly many limitations in the studies on the clinical medicine such as extent of technical application, and development of high techniques to contribute to the people protection and care better.
Clinical Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

The traditional medicine has been developing and become an official science. The objectives of traditional medicine are to continue consolidation, and improvement of the organizational network and collaborative collaboration between the health sector and traditional medicine, strengthen investment for modernization of traditional medicine such as training, recovery of the domestic medicinal plant garden in the local level and enhancement of the international cooperation.
Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

A study aimed to strengthen the quality of medication that remains the nature of traditional medicine. New techniques applied in the researches. The inherit of traditional experiences and making up the preparation forms of traditional medications was a trend of studying new drugs as well as application of new researches.
Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

The traditional medicine has been developing together with the development of the country. The modern medicine came into Vietnam in XVII century. On the scientific basis, inherite of the traditional medicine, the combination of the traditional medicine and the modern medicine aims at building the Viet nam’s health sector which is suitable with the country’s condition and the people needs. During its own development, the health sector has obtained some major achivement including enhancement of the capacity of the people health protection and care, strengthen of the medical equipment and collection of the valuable experiences of building the country health sector by the combining the traditional and modern medicine
Medicine ; 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

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

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