Traditional medicine and Modern medicine

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Infectious diseases and crises have benefited greatly from modern

medicine. In most other fields, it's largely control, which is palliation.
Pharmacology, including psychopharmacology, aims to control and
relieve symptoms. Clinicians and researchers must now focus on
prevention and cure. Modern medicine's other major difficulty is
longevity. Vaccines for hypertension, diabetes, cancer, etc., as well as
the importance of meditation, yoga, and spirituality in illness prevention,
demand attention. Lifestyle adjustments and healthy centenarians should
be studied closely to find out what helps longevity and wellbeing. An
examination of complementary and alternative medicine is required,
putting aside its hype and/or hatred towards conventional treatment.
Medicine is a manifestation of human eros, not its thanatos. It must
reach its full potential, so that eros triumphs and thanatos triumphs only
in the end.
A traditional medicine practitioner is a person who has been recognized
by the community in which he or she lives as someone who is qualified
to provide health care through the use of plant, animal, and mineral
substances, as well as other methods based on social, cultural, and
religious practices, such as herbal remedies. Moreover, practitioners of
traditional medicine are regarded as authorities on community attitudes
and beliefs concerning physical, mental, and social well-being.
Traditional and modern medical systems have evolved from various
beliefs and cultural backgrounds. They look at health, disease, and its
causes from various angles. Due of these variances, approaches to health
and sickness vary.
Medicinal plants have been employed by mankind for their healing
properties since the dawn of human civilization. Nature has served as a
source of medical substances for thousands of years, and an astounding
number of modern medications have been discovered by scientists in
natural environments. Numerous of these isolations were made as a
result of the agents' typical medical applications. Traditional medicine
systems based on plants and animals continue to play an important part
in health care, with over 80 percent of the world's population relying
mostly on traditional medicines for their primary health care (Owolabi et
al., 2007). Several traditional medicinal systems, including Ayurveda
and Unani, have lasted for more than 3000 years in India and rely mostly
on plant-based medications to treat their patients. The material medica of
these systems comprises a rich tradition of indigenous herbal practices
that have helped to maintain the health of the majority of rural people in
India for thousands of years. The use of several plants as medicine is
mentioned in ancient scriptures such as the Rig Veda (4500-1600 BC)
and the Atharva Veda (c. 1700 BC). More than 700 herbs are mentioned
in ayurvedic medicinal texts such as the Samhita and the Samhita, which
are both available online (Jain, 1968).
According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 1977), a
"medicinal plant" is any plant that has chemicals that can be utilized for
therapeutic purposes in one or more of its organs or that serves as a
precursor for the production of effective pharmaceuticals. This definition
distinguishes between medical plants whose therapeutic powers and
ingredients have been scientifically verified and plants that are
recognized as medicinal but have not yet been submitted to a full
analysis by the scientific community.
The preparations may be produced for immediate consumption or as a
basis for herbal products, according to the organization. Medicinal plants
are plants that contain naturally occurring medicinal compounds that are
used to treat disease or alleviate suffering (Okigbo et al., 2008).
Traditional medicines and medicinal plants have been used as
therapeutic agents for the maintenance of good health in most
developing countries for many years, with the exception of a few.
In October 1999, the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
organized a workshop on the development of national policies on
traditional medicine. The workshop defined traditional medicine as the
sum total of knowledge, skills, and practices of holistic healthcare that is
recognized and accepted by the community for its role in the
maintenance of health and the treatment of diseases. Traditional
medicine was developed and passed down from generation to
generation1 based on the theory, beliefs, and experiences that were
indigenous to different cultures. Some traditional medicines, such as
those used in traditional medicine, have made a comeback in some
countries.
Both systems, however, focus on the same thing — the human being.
The traditional and modern healing skills should coexist.

Theoretical Framework of the Study.

Unifying the research on Traditional and Modern medicine at the international,
national, municipal, and household levels is a big step, but it is required to
highlight the various and complicated elements that influence medicinal plant
intake. A similar method was used to establish a framework for analyzing and
understanding tropical deforestation.
The first part of the study depicts generalized medicinal plant usage groups hunter-
gatherer communities are generally seen as remote and poor while farmers are
generally seen as wealthier and with access to better infrastructure). Despite the
risk of eliminating particular populations that do not fit the general patterns
identified in the literature, we believe the four groups provide a useful framework
for considering who uses medicinal medicines.
The research shows that many people use medicinal plant items to maintain or treat
their health, and that number is unlikely to decline in the near future. The research
proposes a conceptual framework describing the elements driving medicinal plant
intake and their interconnection. Hunter-gatherers, farmers and pastoralists, urban
and dwellers, and businesspeople are the main medicinal plant user groups
(producer, consumer, and society-wide). The suggested framework's factors and
links span international to household levels, allowing for the production of globally
comparable information. The test for success is if the suggested paradigm will
encourage more empirical and conceptually rich research, and whether the findings
will better contribute to human health and medicinal plant resource management.

Synthesis

Modern medicine necessitates regular dosages that change solely in

proportion to the patient's body weight or the severity of the condition.
Traditional healers are more likely to prescribe a specific dosage or
combination of medications to their patients, which is created only
during the consultation and is based on the patient's symptoms and other
factors.
There are several advantages to using traditional treatments rather than
modern synthetic pharmaceuticals. To put it another way, traditional
medicine is a term used to describe knowledge, skills, and practices
based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences that are employed
in health care.
Sick people were used as test subjects in the development of modern
medicine in order to learn which drug or medical procedure would be
most efficient in treating a condition.
Due to the fact that traditional medicine often makes use of medicinal
herbs that grow right here in our own backyards, it is less expensive than
contemporary medicine. Traditional medicine is preferred by many
individuals since they cannot afford the costs of hospitalization. It's
possible that you'll wind up spending a lot of money on traditional
medicine, but if you go for modern medicine, you'll be much more likely
to get better, even if it costs more money.