Lesson 2 Flashcards
Complementary Medicine
used together with conventional medicine
Used in place of complementary medicine
Alternative medicine
Integrative Medicine
arises from a need to appreciate the wholeness of an individual person.
Focuses on the least invasive, least toxic, and least costly methods to help facilitate health by integrating the best of both worlds—allopathic (conventional) and complementary therapies
Integrative Medicine
Founder of Allopathic Medicine that wrote “It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.”
Sir William Osler
Defined by the World Health Organization as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Health
Old English word that means wholeness, soundness, or spiritual wellness.
Hal
What does healing facilitates?
- reduces stress
- improves diet
- promotes exercise
- increases the person’s sense of community and connection
Uses a combination of modern healthcare practices to diagnose and treat a patient
Integrative Medicine Doctor
What does the Integrative Medicine Doctor focuses on?
Nutritional and exercise habits of the patient
When was TAMA established?
1999
Mandates the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC)
Republic Act 8423 (RA 8423)
The sum total of knowledge, skills and practices on health care, other than those embodied in biomedicine, used in the prevention, diagnosis and elimination of physical or mental disorder
Traditional and Alternative Health Care
The sum total of knowledge, skills, and practice on health care, not necessarily explicable in the context of modern, scientific philosophical framework, but recognized by the people to help maintain and improve their health towards the wholeness of their being, the community and society, and their interrelations based on culture, history, heritage, and consciousness.
Traditional Medicine
That discipline of medical care advocating therapy with remedies that produce effects differing from those of the diseases treated
Biomedicine
Other forms of non-allopathic, occasionally non-indigenous or imported healing methods, though not necessarily practiced for centuries nor handed down from one generation to another. Some alternative health care modalities include reflexology, acupressure, chiropractics, nutritional therapy, and other similar methods
Alternative Health Care Modalities
Finished, labeled, medicinal products that contain as active ingredient/s serial or underground part/s of plant or other materials or combination thereof, whether in the crude state or as plant preparations.
Herbal Medicines
Those foods that grow spontaneously in nature whether or not they are tended by man. It also refers to foods that have been prepared from grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, meats, fish, eggs, honey, raw milk, and the like, without the use or addition of additives, preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, or manufactured chemicals of any sort after harvest or slaughter
Natural Products
Any and all operations involved in the production, including preparation, propagation, processing, formulating, filling, packing, repacking, altering, ornamenting, finishing, or otherwise changing the container, wrapper, or labeling of a consumer product in the furtherance of the distribution of the same from the original place of manufacture to the person who makes the final delivery or sale to the ultimate consumer
Manufacture
The relatively old, highly respected people with a profound knowledge of traditional remedies
Traditional Healers
Is the legal basis by which the indigenous communities exercise their rights to have access to, protect, control over their cultural knowledge and product, including, but not limited to, traditional medicines, and includes the right to receive compensation for it
Intellectual Property rights
Western Medicine
the treatment of medical conditions with medications, by doctors, nurses and other conventional healthcare providers
Encompasses all types of conventional medical treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and physical therapy
Western Medicine
Used together with conventional medicine in a deliberate manner that is personalized, evidence based, and safe.
Integrative Medicine
