Alternative medicine in Bangladesh context means Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicine. Government recognizes and patronizes allopathic (modern and western) medicine. This system through Government Institutions viz. hospitals and health care centres can offer services to only about 30% people. The other two systems (Unani/Ayurvedic and Homeopathic) can serve 50-60% people. Limited health man...

There are several systems of medicine practiced in the world, every system with its own basis, philosophy and therapeutics but with one common object: alleviation of disease. The knowledge of drugs goes back to prehistoric time. Man savage must have known by experience how to relieve his suffering by the use of herbs growing in his vicinity. Records of ancient civilization show that a considera...

THE STUDY REPORTED BY Zhang et al. (14) in this issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology raises several potentially important issues relating to traditional remedies. Despite their lack of acceptance by opinion makers in the field of clinical medicine, these remedies remain the commonest therapeutic agents used worldwide, and some of them have even found thei...

BACKGROUND Best practices for conflict-of-interest (COI) policies in medical schools have evolved rapidly over the past decade, in part motivated by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) scorecard that has publicly graded schools since 2007. This report describes the methodological update and impact of revisions to the scorecard in 2014. METHODS The original AMSA scorecard (used ann...

Background: Tuberculosis is an airborne infection that causes lung damage, and it particularly harmful to patients with weakened immune systems or other health problems. Allopathic medications are associated development of cross resistance multidrug in diseases such as TB, making treatment more difficult. In this case, Herbal remedies the most effective treating disease. Medicinal plants antitu...

The government of India has, over the past decade, implemented the "integration" of traditional, complementary and alternative medical (TCAM) practitioners, specifically practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-rigpa, and Homoeopathy (collectively known by the acronym AYUSH), in government health services. A range of operational and ethical challenges has manifested ...