Title : Where west meets east? Time to globalise Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM)
Abstract:
When I steeped in to investigate much on about traditional Asian medical practice that seems mystical and pseudoscientific. Other than well-known success stories — artemisinin for malaria, and arsenic trioxide for leukaemia — there seemed to be a lack of scientifically proven remedies. For around more than 200 years, two very different systems of medicine have been used in Asia to cure diseases and keep people healthy. Not only are big efforts underway to modernize traditional medicine in China, India and Japan, but Western medicine is adopting some aspects of the Eastern point of view too. In particular, modern medical practitioners are coming around to the idea that certain illnesses cannot be reduced to one isolatable, treatable cause. Rather, a fall from good health often involves many small, subtle effects that create a system-wide imbalance. The concept of lack of controlled trials in traditional medicines appear more magical than practical, and, without a physical basis, have resisted measurement and observation. But slowly these differences are resolving. In reality, these two systems cannot replace each other but instead they will complement each other towards disease-free health and wellness.
