Traditional Medicine Vs Modern Medicine.

What is Traditional Medicine?

Traditional medicine is medicine that has been used to treat for decades using specific theories, beliefs, knowledge, skills and cultural traditions. The WHO has defined this in great detail. According to the WHO, traditional medicine is the sum of knowledge, skills and practices based on theories, beliefs and experiences of different cultures, whether explainable or not, used in the maintenance of health, as well as in the prevention , diagnosis, improvement of health or treatment of physical and mental diseases.

Examples of traditional medicine are Ayurvedic treatment in Asians, homeopathy in Germans, Kampo medicine in Japanese and naturopathy in Europeans, TCM – Traditional Chinese Medicine in Chinese, TMM – Traditional Mongolian Medicine in Mongolians. Today, there are a few rare traditional pharmacies in Europe. Due to the fact that registration of TM preparations is very heavy and monstrously expensive these pharmacies can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

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What is Conventional Medicine?

Modern medicine or conventional medicine is also called academic medicine, Rockefeller medicine or evidence-based medicine because it was established as an alternative to the traditional ways and beliefs of alternative medicine. Modern medicine was invented to have standardized drugs and drug patents for specific ailments and conditions. Conventional medicine has developed mainly in the last 200 years completely using the achievements, insights of Traditional Medicine, where certain typical conditions were treated with certain herbs or their mixtures, and then some “Jew” came up with the idea of patenting the drugs of conventional medicine in order to increase people’s gratitude towards this very medicine.

What’s more, it’s not just pills and syrups. Some modern physical therapies have been developed after years of practice and calculations in traditional medicine. For example, Acupuncture, Chiropractic and other energy-enhancing therapies were invented after years of progression from traditional to modern medicine. Now we have some medical pathologies where Traditional Medicine practitioners say that their methods are better than those of other Traditional Medicine practitioners because they are based on some “patents” that are borrowed from Conventional Medicine.

To sum up, conventional medicine taught in medical academies is nothing more than patent science, which is based on “scientific” evidence, where some doctors trained in this system teach other future doctors of this system to derive strictly patented drugs. This whole system is highly pathological, and Poland is the best pathological picture of how it should not look like!

Traditional Medicine or Modern Medicine – what is the difference?

The main difference between modern medicine and traditional medicine are the dosage specifications of the preparations – their standard quantitative dosages for specific conditions and symptoms.

Modern medicine and its patent medicines generally have hard quantitative dosages that cannot be changed. Any change can be detrimental to health and burden other organs. Although we will treat one thing, some other organ may be negatively affected.

Traditional medicine selects drugs more for the patient and his symptoms. Dosages are always determined on an individual basis starting from very small to the right amounts.

Today’s modern drugs may seem safer because they are more “researched” but nothing could be further from the truth. More patent medicines are being withdrawn from the market as in traditional medicine due to messy reactions or interactions with other drugs. The dosage of modern medicine is also a problem because dosages are predetermined and chemical formulas cannot be changed.

Traditional Medicine medicines are mostly based on herbs and all that comes from nature. Herbs generally do not interact with other drugs, side effects are extremely rare.

Integrated Medicine

In Poland there are few doctors what can combine the knowledge of conventional medicine with traditional medicine. It seems that the best choice for the patient is a combination of these methods where we take only the best of a particular medicine and use it for health.

Is Modern Medicine better than Traditional Medicine?

No. Modern medicine, also known as conventional medicine, is simply the type of medicine best known to us. All Medical Academies in Poland teach students only in the field of medicine in medical terms, and not, as is the case in many Asian countries, in the field of medicine – Traditional Medicine.

In China, to become a Traditional Medicine doctor it can take as long as 12 years to study which is only 6 years compared to internal medicine or family medicine majors. In fact, a Traditional Medicine doctor in China must complete a degree in Classical Medicine to be accepted for specialization in Traditional Medicine or Acupuncture. Often Traditional Medicine and Acupuncture are two separate fields of medical study.

The advantage of Traditional Medicine is the issue of diagnosis because a TCM doctor does not need expensive diagnostic machines to diagnose his patients.

However, it is important to remember that both Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine should work together for the benefit of the patient and cooperate.

Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine

Very often you will encounter that a traditional medicine doctor will offer you treatment using treatments and herbs. Below is a list of the most common treatments by type of condition. Keep in mind that this is only a small part of what Traditional Medicine has to offer.