Traditional medicine

Dominicans learned the personal language so that they could get the opportunity of economic mobility. Moreover, the Christian missionaries were much concerned with converting the indigenous people into Christians, who made the people practicing traditional religions reduce tremendously. Currently, over 95 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. Columbus and the missionaries introduced these Catholicism, and…

When it comes to treatment of physical illnesses and ailments, you would rely yourself to the traditional doctors and medicine widely available. But you can’t subscribe to the same values when it comes to healing, coping, or therapy treatment. Medicines cannot heal, and therapy cannot cure, in a traditional sense. While one can seek both out at the same time, they are not the same thing. One must look into other sources of help in order to heal, seperately from being cured from whatever ailment…

prohibiting their freedom to choose when they want to die. Secondly, Dr. Manning (1998) concludes that “the more compassionate treatment for such terminally ill patients is a quick merciful end since its treatment is generally far less successful than traditional medical and psychological means” (p. 42). People claim that by keeping an terminally ill patient alive you are putting them through unbearably pain and prolonging unnecessary suffering when you can easily just let them die a peaceful…

Eating is not just meant to fill the stomach. It is an essential part of living, having food at one's disposal, being able to consume a decent amount of food, and knowing what and how to eat are all viewed as a good fortune. Chinese people believe to obtain physical as well as mental harmony and inner peace, a good meal is essential. After many difficult years of war and hunger, living standards in China are now as high as ever before and of course ingredients are also easier to obtain compared…

tropical countries with long coastlines where coconut palms grow in abundance, coconut water has always been used as a refreshing drink and a health enhancer. The people of the Pacific Islands respect the coconut and use all of its parts for food and medicine. It is only recently that this humble natural beverage has started receiving the attention it clearly deserves in North America. If you are not familiar with this drink, coconut water is the nearly colorless liquid contained within a…

Introduction (200 words) Community health care is a broad and every expanding topic which underpins many social, political and economic decisions. For community nurses to provide optimal care to their clients an understanding of the health care principles is essential to how they will be provided within the nursing and community setting. This essay will discuss how knowledge and understanding effects health literacy and the underlying health principles that are relevant to a large Afghanistan…

the older patients and risk factor associated with these conditions. Disclosing this prevalence will make the health care provider more concerned and more astutely pick up subtle signs of illness. Rather than approaching a patient visit in the “traditional” way, the clinician may also…

diagnosis of respiratory conditions. The article emphasizes the importance of spirometry in understanding and diagnosing the most commonly encountered conditions in pulmonary medicine. Other important functions of spirometry is for determining the standard of quality as well as for providing guidelines for practicing respiratory medicine. It can be used to screen the patients and smokers for any respiratory conditions or for determining the at risk group. This is a reliable source that is peer…

prescription must be then transcribed in the paper chart, which in turn causes duplicate documentation and can be a gateway to errors. Although the idea wasn’t welcomed with open arms, it was a major advancement in the practice of medicine. “In 1991, the Institute of Medicine, a highly respected think tank in the US recommended that by the year 2000, every physician should be using computer in their practice to improve patient care and made policy recommendation on how to achieve that…

Farnsworth (1985) revealed that at least 89 plant-derived medicines used in the industrial world were originally discovered by studying indigenous medicine. These are a few of the very common ailments that can be treated by medicinal plants: burns, coughs, severe cuts, sprains, worms, UTIs, and so forth. Burns are cured with Portulaca pilosa. Cuts are treated…