{"id":263789,"date":"2023-10-11T19:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=263789"},"modified":"2023-10-12T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:51:51","slug":"we-need-evidence-based-traditional-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/we-need-evidence-based-traditional-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"We need evidence-based traditional medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/strong>This post has been created based on the article \u201cWe need evidence-based traditional medicine\u201d<\/strong> published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 11th<\/sup> October 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2014 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>:\u00a0This article discusses the difference between modern and traditional medicine. It presents a case for an evaluation of these traditional therapies based on modern science, and the incorporation of their useful parts in medicine instead of straight rejection.<\/p>\n

What is Modern medicine?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Modern medicine became science-based from the late 19th century when advances in technology made the study of the human body more accurate. It led to safe anesthesia and surgery.<\/p>\n

Self-correction is the strength of modern medicine. Therapies found to be ineffective are abandoned and are accepted if found effective.<\/p>\n

What is the basis of Ayurveda?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Like many traditional medical systems, Ayurveda was limited in its understanding of how the human body works due to the lack of available technology.<\/p>\n

However, its emphasis on reason-based diagnoses and therapies on a sound understanding of the human body<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How does Ayurvedic medicine differ from modern medicine?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In modern drug development, the isolation of the active principle is used. Thus, most modern medicines are a single ingredient<\/strong> and only a few are combinations.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Ayurvedic medicines are commonly combinations<\/strong>, and it is uncertain how these combinations interact with each other.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Ayurvedic medicines should be evaluated by methods of modern science to increase their acceptability. Therefore, new investigational methods and trial designs<\/strong> should be facilitated by the Ministry of AYUSH.<\/p>\n

2) An evidence-based appraisal of all traditional medical systems<\/strong>, retaining what is useful, and then integrating them into one clear system should be carried out.<\/p>\n

3) Denouncing traditional medical systems completely should be avoided. For instance, the Nobel-winning anti-malarial artemisinin<\/strong> was produced based on a 1,600-year-old text of Traditional Chinese Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post has been created based on the article \u201cWe need evidence-based traditional medicine\u201d published in The Hindu on 11th October 2023. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2014 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health. News:\u00a0This article discusses the difference between modern and traditional medicine. It… Continue reading We need evidence-based traditional medicine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,8131],"class_list":["post-263789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-social-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":30,"cached_at":1698359403,"cached_date":1698403630},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}