: Traditional Islamic Medicine (TIM) is a diverse of health practice used by patients as an orientation to their own values and beliefs towards good health which might affect the conventional cancer therapy. In this study we aim to determine the utilization of TIM among adult oncology patients in Saudi Arabia and to evaluate the...Read More

Building upon the World Health Organization’s recent publication WHO Strategy for Traditional Medicine (WHO 2002), this paper examines the historical position of “traditional medicines” at their intersection with the development and modernization of a biomedically based health care system in Turkey. This paper considers how the historical development of Turkey’s health care system, as a...Read More

Complementary medicine is a formal method of health care in most countries of the ancient world. It is expected to become more widely integrated into the modern medical system, including the medical curriculum. Despite the perception of modern medicine as more efficacious, traditional medicine continues to be practiced. More than 70% of the developing world’s...Read More

As long as history remembers, medical science has always been part of man’s life. In the beginning it was difficult to differentiate magicians and witch doctors from physicians, In fact there was no boundary between magic and medicine. Fiction mingled with science. Medicine existed several thousand years ago among Babylonians and Summerians and in “Hamurabi...Read More