Question

What is the relation of traditional medicine with science? plz help urgent dont copy plz and the realtion also i ask this q many times but all r copying nd just giving defination of traditional medicine dont do this plz

Answer 1

In 1981, a Traditional Medicine Unit was set up in the Central Hospital, Yaoundé, followed in 1989 by the creation of a Community Health and Traditional Medicine Service with a Unit in charge of Traditional Medicine. The sector was boosted in 1990 by law n° 90/053 of 19 December 1990 on Freedom of Association, since it led to the creation of several Associations of Traditional Healers all over the country. This was followed later by a note of the Minister of Health requesting collaboration between traditional healers and the public health sector. In 2002, a service for Traditional Medicine was established in the Ministry of Health, including a unit for ethics and deontology and another for legislation and control; there was also a scientific sub-department to promote medicinal plants in the Ministry of Public Health. Further, since 1974, there is an Institute of Medical Research and the Studies of Medicinal Plant (IMPM) in Cameroon.... traditional drugs are relatively cheaper compared with modern medicine, and it is known that some 80 percent of the population seems to use traditional medicine and tradi-practioners one way or the other, often simultaneously with conventional care. There are diseases that the local population believes firmly that only traditional medicine can handle – like madness, and what they believe to be witchcraft related illnesses. Yet there are still many criticisms of traditional medicine: most of their drugs profess to cure dozens of diseases; prescriptions traditionally given orally, lack consistency; rarely do any two traditional healers have the same drugs or speak the same medical language; production of the drugs is all a matter of secrecy, transferable only to kith and kins, and not for collaboration with competitors; traditional practitioners have vague knowledge of anatomy and divergent diagnostic methods; and charlatans that peddle fake medicines, putting the lives of the poorest people at risk. On their part, the traditional practitioners believe that conventional medicine practitioners and research scientists seek merely to condemn their art or to steal their secrets.

Answer 2

If we will go on explaining the whole concept then it will be so late.

The explanation is extremely wide.

However, the basic relationship between the two is that with the help of science, one can come up with more logical and reasonable advancement in medical science.

This is with the help of research and their results.