Traditional
Complementary/Alternative
Traditional medicine is the sum total of theknowledge, skills, and practices based on thetheories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous todifferent cultures, whether explicable or not, usedin the maintenance of health as well as in theprevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatmentof physical and mental illness.
They refer to a broad set of health care practicesthat are not part of that country's own traditionand are not integrated into the dominant healthcare system.
Yin and Yang
5 elements
Checking the Tongue and Pulse
Interaction of the body, mind and spirit, and thecombination of energy and matter
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Ether
Vata-Motion
Pitta-Digestion
Kapha- maintenance of
bodily function
constitution and lifestyle
Imbalance of doshas
Panchakarma- cleansing and rejuvenating programincluding vomiting, purging, enemas, breathing invapors of herbal medicines, and purification of theblood.
Medicines from natural sources
Dietary regimens
Behavior modifications
Remedies chosen based on attributes and taste.
Sweet tasting foods: Sweet: sugar,* milk, butter, rice,honey, bread
Sour: yogurt, lemon, cheese
Salty: salt, seaweed, soy sauce, pickles
Pungent: spicy foods, pepper, ginger, cumin
Bitter: spinach, other green leafy vegetables
Astringent: beans, pomegranate
Developed by Galen, physician to Marcus Aurelius
Based on Ayurveda and Egyptian medicine
Four elements-Earth, Fire, Water, Air
Four Fluids-Black Bile, Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile
