Abstract

Advances in Complementary & Alternative medicine

WHO and Tradition Medicine

  • Open or Close Robert David A*

    World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil

    *Corresponding author: Robert David A, Acupuncture Doctor by WFAS, World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo(PUCSP), Brazil

Submission: October 30, 2017; Published: December 04, 2017

DOI: 10.31031/ACAM.2017.01.000501

ISSN: 2637-7802
Volume1 Issue1

Abstract

The world health organization for more than fifty years has been dedicating itself to the questions of Traditional Medicine and defines Traditional Medicine as the “sum total of the knowledge, skill, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness” [1].

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