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Traditional Medicine A global perspective Edited by Steven B Kayne BSc, PhD, MBA, LLM, MSc, DAgVetPharm, FRPharmS, FCPP, FIPharm ...

Published by the Pharmaceutical Press An imprint of RPS Publishing 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN, UK 100 South Atkinson ...

Preface vii About the editor ix Contributors x 1 Introduction to traditional medicine 1 Steven Kayne 2 Traditional European folk ...

9 Korean medicine 257 Seon Ho Kim, Bong-Hyun Kim and Il-Moo Chang 10 Traditional medicines in the Pacific 270 Rosemary Beresford ...

Preface My good friend, Dr Gill Scott, and I were sitting in the gardens of the Mount Nelson Hotel (affectionately known as ‘The ...

viii |Preface emphasises the importance of ritualistic practice. In the African chapter the importance of using indigenous plant ...

Steven Kayne practised as a Community Pharmacist in Glasgow for more than 30 years before retiring from active practice in 1999. ...

Rosemary Beresford ONZM, BPharm, MSc, PhD Rosemary Beresford began her career as a High School teacher, subsequently joining wha ...

Kenneth Collins MPhil, PhD, FRCGP Kenneth Collins is a general practitioner with a special interest in medical history. He is a ...

Bong Hyun Kim BSc, MSc, PhD BH Kim received his degrees from Daegoo Hanny University, Daegoo, Korea, where, after internship and ...

Haruki Yamada PhD Haruki Yamada is the Director and a Professor at the Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, and the Dean of the ...

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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. Hippocrates Almost 20 years ago the World Health Organiz ...

In industrialised nations some traditional therapies, in particular traditional Chinese medicine, and ayurveda, have become pop ...

medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises, applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose and pre ...

national politics, and as vehicles of ideology and identity construction.^11 Ultimately medicines affect the private lives of in ...

contributed to a Strategy for the WHO and expressed their willingness to participate in its implementation. The Strategy was rev ...