But the practice of melding the modern with the traditional is also spreading among health care consumers. When they don’t find relief from Western medicine, Americans increasingly are turning ...

It is essential reading as a synthesis for all students of the history of medicine. 'The Western Medical Tradition is an extremely important publication ... In doing so it makes an excellent case for ...

Singh, MD, is on an important mission to bridge the ancient healing practices of Ayurveda and the modern science behind ...

Modern Western medicine is increasingly challenged by complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). According to a recent study by Caplan and Griffin, [1] 42.1% of Americans used some form of CAM ...

"I grew up as a traditional woman within my community … and I always felt that if I were to ever get sick, that I would just undergo traditional medicine and not western," said Whitebean.

TCM has been endorsed by the Chinese government to play a role in chronic disease prevention and control. An outline issued by the cabinet in 2017, for the period through 2025, laid out measures ...

Later came "the Hippocratic Corpus" often attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who is widely regarded as the father of modern Western medicine (although scholars today think the ...

Naturally, I panicked more, until I spoke to the experts. Modern Western medicine says that while your body can send signals in the form of acne due to hormones, stress, food, or medication ...