Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditionalmedicine in China. It has been described as pseudoscientific...
treatment of physical and mental illness". Traditionalmedicine is often contrasted with scientific medicine. In some Asian and African countries, up to 80% of...
Traditional Vietnamese medicine (Y học Cổ truyền Việt Nam), also known as Southern Herbology (Thuốc Nam) is a traditionalmedicine practiced by Vietnamese...
Thailand. While not all Buddhist medicine is Thai, Thai medicine is considered Buddhist medicine. Traditional Thai medicine stems from pre-history indigenous...
Traditional Mongolian medicine developed over many years among the Mongolian people. Mongolian medical practice spread across their empire and became an...
Iranian traditionalmedicine (ITM) (Persian: طب سنتی ایرانی, romanized: tebbe sonnati-e irāni), also known as Persian traditionalmedicine, is one of...
Traditional Korean medicine (known in North Korea as Koryo medicine) refers to the forms of traditionalmedicine practiced in Korea. Korean medicine traditions...
Traditional African medicine is a range of traditionalmedicine disciplines involving indigenous herbalism and African spirituality, typically including...
medicine (Urdu: طب یونانی tibb yūnānī) is Perso-Arabic traditionalmedicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia....
poaching for its body parts, which are used in traditionalmedicine. Biologically and morphologically, Asian black bears represent the beginning of the arboreal...
Ayurveda (/ˌɑːjʊərˈveɪdə, -ˈviː-/; IAST: ayurveda) is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. It is heavily practiced...
Sri Lanka has its own indigenous scheme of traditionalmedicine which is called hela wedakama (not associated with ayurveda it is unique). This system...
The following is a list of traditional Chinese medicines. There are roughly 13,000 medicinals used in China and over 100,000 medicinal prescriptions recorded...
Kampo or Kanpō medicine (漢方医学, Kanpō igaku), often known simply as Kanpō (漢方, Chinese medicine), is the study of traditional Chinese medicine in Japan following...
Traditional Cambodian medicine (Khmer: វេជ្ជសាស្រ្តបូរាណខ្មែរ, ALA-LC: Vejjasāstr Pūrāṇ Khmaer) comprise several traditionalmedicine systems in Cambodia...
to East Asia and have been long used in traditional East Asian cuisine. The fruit has also been an ingredient in East Asiantraditionalmedicine, namely...
ghost moths and produces a fruiting body which is valued in traditional Chinese medicine as an aphrodisiac. Caterpillar fungus contains the compound cordycepin...
massage, like Thai traditionalmedicine (TTM), is a combination of influences from Indian and Southeast Asian traditions of medicine, and the art as it...
alternative medicine university with campuses in Kenmore, Washington, and San Diego, California. Programs include naturopathy, acupuncture, TraditionalAsian medicine...
Prescientific forms of medicine, now known as traditionalmedicine or folk medicine, remain commonly used in the absence of scientific medicine and are thus called...
Africa, Asia, Australia, and islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is consumed as a culinary vegetable and is used in traditionalmedicine. Centella...
spice saffron. It is also used for health purposes, especially in traditionalAsianmedicine - owing to biologically active chemical compounds (mainly alkaloids...
the liver and stored in the gallbladder, which is used by some traditionalAsianmedicine practitioners. It is estimated that 12,000 bears are farmed for...
decaying wood of broad-leaved trees and pine stumps. It is used in traditionalAsianmedicine, where it is known as zizhi (紫芝, purple Ganoderma) in Chinese...
chih (China)), the sought-after red Ganoderma species used in traditionalAsianmedicine. It is important to note that G. lucidum is not a synonym for...
Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa. They fulfill different social and political...
Most insect teas originate from the Southeast Asian region. They are often used in local traditionalmedicine, but have not been well-studied in the scientific...