COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Flashcards
It refers to a broad set of health care practices that are not
part of that country’s own traditional or conventional medicine
and are not fully integrated into the dominant health care
system.
They are used interchangeably with traditional medicine
in some countrie
COMPLEMENTARY
AND ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE
is health care that uses all appropriate
therapeutic approaches—conventional and
non-mainstream—within a framework that focuses on health,
the therapeutic relationship, and the whole person.
uses lifestyle changes that focuses in mind, body, and soul. Ex. mind an body therapy
Integrative medicine
Outside the conventional practices
paliative care
CAM
It refers to a broad set of health care practices that are not
part of that country’s own traditional or conventional medicine
and are not fully integrated into the dominant health care
system.
They are used interchangeably with traditional medicine
in some countries.
COMPLEMENTARY
AND ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE
is health care that uses all appropriate
therapeutic approaches—conventional and
non-mainstream—within a framework that focuses on health,
the therapeutic relationship, and the whole person.
uses lifestyle changes that focuses in mind, body, and soul. Ex. Mind & Body Therapy
Integrative medicine
practices that we apply now on our healthcare system
hospital setting
Conventional Practice
Outside the conventional practices
paliative care
CAM
refers to non-mainstream practices used together with conventional medicine
Complementary medicine
refers to non-mainstream practices used instead of conventional medicine.
Alternative medicine
are defined as medicinal drugs
used in conventional systems of medicine with the intention to
treat or prevent disease, or to restore, correct or modify
physiological function.
Conventional pharmaceuticals
include herbs, herbal materials, herbal preparations and
finished herbal products that contain, as active ingredients, parts of plants,
other plant materials or combinations thereof.
In some countries, herbal
medicines may contain, by tradition, natural organic or inorganic active
ingredients that are not of plant origin (e.g. animal and mineral materials).
Herbal medicines
is defined as the sum total of knowledge
and practices, whether explicable or not, used in diagnosing, preventing or
eliminating physical, mental and social diseases.
care level.
practised at the primary health
This knowledge or practice
may rely exclusively on past experience and observation handed down
orally or in writing from generation to generation. Ex. Hilot
Indigenous traditional medicine
is the sum total of the knowledge, skill and practices
based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness
culture to culture
Traditional medicine
(to integrate traditional medicine (TM)/
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into national health
systems).
Beijing Declaration
