Shifting Paradigm: From Conventional to Alternative Medicines
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چکیده
ankind has the right to avail the best that is available in any system of medicine. The proposition of cause and effect relationship by Lister in the 19 century laid the foundation of modern medicine and brought about a revolution in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. With the advent of antibiotics, diagnostics, asepsis and surgery, emerged a period where the cure of disease and the improvement in quality and longevity surpassed the imagination of all and diseases once thought to be deadly were tamed easily. In this fast growing pace of modern medicine, traditional practices of medicine took a back seat.
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