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DIFFERENCES OF
TRADITIONAL AND
MODERN HEALTH CARE
SYSTEMS
DEBATE- yahoo
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE MODERN MEDICINE
There is no way!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone supporting modern Modern medicine is
medicine is just saying scientifically tested
because. " That is not very
Most herbal medicines have
convincing. Alternative
never been tested in the lab,
medicine has been researched
traditional healers only
and has proved to work. Many
acquire their knowledge from
doctors just chose to ignore it
their ancestors whom they
though because they cannot
got it from observation only,
make a profit of it. People that
as they had never done any
are in stage-5 of cancer have
scientific experiments, they
proven to only have a two
don't know what are the
percent chance of living five
components of a certain
more years if they take
herbtic as well as how it cure
chemotherapy treatments.
diseases,
That makes me sad. To think
therefore I believe we should
that we do have treatments
take the herbs and send them
that are guaranteed to cure,
KEY DIFFERENCES TM VS MM
Traditional medicine Modern medicine
Charlatanism no professional
qualification, damages reputation of
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Healers considers their knowledge of
medicinal plants to be inherently
secretive and a gift from ancestors
THPs are reluctant to hand
information to an uninitiated
researcher
Probability of imprecise dosage, poor
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