In India, separate Ministry of AYUSH has established for their own progress and development,
AYUSH system comprises of Ayurveda, Unani, Sidha and Homeopathy. My question is today, we have "modern Allopathy literature (Anat, Physio, Pharmac, Medicine, etc)" as a science for understanding of Health, however even AYUSH system of medicine also fallows the science but always these system may not fit in line with the modern medical sciences. so there may be problem for integration of AYUSH and Allopathy at Internal Medicine level.
However, as recently WHO has published a report on "Traditional Medicine" and also "Self health practices", indicating importance of these intervention for achieving the overall health and acceptance of health at the ground level and reaching towards "Universal Health Coverage"
I personally believe that many of the OPD and IPD, diseases, illness, symptoms, etc. there are scope of these alternative medical sciences particularly in rising burden of NCDs. These alternative medical sciences may be preventive, promotive and curative in nature.
i also believe that, these science need more "Operational research" at the community level and so in area of "Public Health" Today, there is need for documentaion and research and scientific support for these types of sciences.
In View of the same, what are the best practices, national policies and public health intervention available at present all over the world which supports and help in redevelopment of alternative medical sciences??
The one "treatment" among those in the list that I can recognize is homeopathy, and it is classified as being the equivalent to placebo, and a pseudo-science. The other ones I cannot comment on.
Regarding "These alternative medical sciences may be preventive, promotive and curative in nature," it seems to me to be vague on purpose, as I have very seldom, indeed never, heard of any remarkable recovery based on this diluted stuff. An alternative medicine chain in Sweden has in fact been heavily criticized, and I think also fined, because of their adverts for this "medicine".
I would not associate myself with such things.
Recent research has also shown that the so called life saving cardiac surgery and implant are also nothing but an placebo effect...
Whether it works or not is the point...
If current tool (science) does not give explanation of phenamenon is called as placebo...however i believe there must be some advance scienec behind th placebo effect. Our failure to design a tool which can identify or measure or can visualise or can see that that phenamenon
Dear Prof Michael Patriksson and Dr Balu Mote , the so-called homeopathy or placebo effect is the manifestation or our body's powerful self-healing capacity.
Everyone have the experience of the self-healing of our skin from wounds of various degrees. Our bones are also have such self-healing ability. If a child accidentally broken his arm or leg, the doctors will just put the broken arm or leg in position, and let the bone to heal by itself. Without such self-healing capacity, no artificial glue can help the broken bone to bond together. Research shows that the lining of our intestine regenerates itself every five to seven days to withstand the constant wear and tear it suffers while breaking down food, absorbing nutrients, and eliminating waste: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/07/understanding-how-the-intestine-replaces-and-repairs-itself/.
Not only our skin, bone and intestine lining have this self-repairing power. Virtually all organs in our body have this self-repairing ability. Our body is much clever than our mind and it knows what to do when there is illness.
Virtually most of the illness we encounter in daily life, from infectious diseases, metabolic syndromes, and certain types of cancer can be cured by our own body through the destroy-rebuild mechanism of autophagy (for infectious disease it is xenophagy):
Article Selective Autophagy and Xenophagy in Infection and Disease
Medicine does not heal illness, although it may help in promoting the healing process. Only our body can do the healing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_nihilism
Yet the full functioning of this self-healing capacity of our body need to be triggered by certain condition like infection or injury, and it is not coming naturally when a person is in good health.
Thanks a lot,
In India Yoga and Ayush have been a source of treatment and has build in culture of India. Hence even if todays modern science may not be able to explain the various positive effect (so called placebo) of these indigenous treatment i believe that one day science is mature enough or developed enough to justify these knowledge. I also believe that each region of the World has such health science which inbuilted in their societies and culture and so i also believe without integrating these sciences achieving "Wellness and Holistic Health" would be like water on ducks back.
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