South African Journal of Occupational Therapy — Volume 44, Number 1, April 2014 INTRODUCTION Allopathy, for the purpose of this paper, refers to “the treatment of disease by conventional means”1:36 and is used in the broadest sense of the word and includes persons who are traditionally part of the multi-disciplinary team working with mental health care users, i.e. psychiatrists, medical practit...

This review is an attempt to portray the discovery and development of ethnomedicine and its phytophores against some important viral diseases from galenical to genomical period. Natural resource, particularly the plants and animals have been the basis of traditional treatment since the dawn of human civilization and the modern medicine (Allopathy) has gradually developed, over the years, by sci...

Introduction: Self-medication is a most important health issue in developing countries like India. Even though there is abundant healthcare access present. Still self-medication is being chosen by the patients. To estimate the prevalence of self-medication and the factors association to self-medication practices among urban fisherman population in Puducherry. Methods: Cross-Sectional Study con...

Thomson's anti-professionalism and recommended a broader range of botanicals. Beach taught his system to medical students and physicians, and in 1830 some of the latter opened a medical school that moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where it received a state charter as the Eclectic Medical Institute in 1845. Haller suggests that the word "eclectic" was chosen in order to identify the movement with "Ame...

This article is a translation work of some portion of Islami Tibb. written by Rehber Farooqui. It deals with the state of medicine during the reigns of the two kings of Nizam dynasty. viz . Nawab Afzeluddaula Behadur and Nawab Mir Mehboob Ali Khan Behadur , the Fifth and the Sixth Nizams respectively. In this period medical department along with the other departments came into existence. The Un...

papers by Gourevitch and Hanson), and with Hippocratic notions of diet. Smith and Thivel both try in different ways to identify the contribution to therapeutics of the historical Hippocrates, but reach very different conclusions, although both suggest that we should look to some aspect of dietetics and their arguments contain much that is of value beyond the Corpus. Surgery as such is hardly me...

211 Sir, This is in response to the recently published results of 71 st round of the survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization highlighting the Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy and Sowarigpa (AYUSH) use among the Indian citizens. As soon as these results were released, all the major national newspapers carried the story emphasizing the fact that 90% of...

There is a fundamental question how homeopathy works. Part of the problem with thus question is that the context within which it is asked needs to be specified. We live in a world dominated by the Western Scientific and Philosophical Tradition, which conditions our approach to Medical Science as well as all other sciences. But this is also a tradition in which there are strong currents of heres...

The commercial significance of medicinal plants was known since millennia but its popularity has grown remarkably in terms of herbal drugs, herbal cosmetics and nutraceuticals during the last few decades. The primary reason being increased interest of developed countries in herbal medicines for safer and natural health care system. This has intensified research on medicinal plants of developing...

The present medicinal system is dominated by the Allopathy or western medicine which is prominently taught and practiced in most of the countries world wide. This system is still evolving and during last few decades focus was based on chemical origin of most of the medicines. Thus majority of drugs in current practice are from synthetic origin. Even so, a large number of these synthetic molecul...