<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Hitha Venugopalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hitha.v@gmail.com">hitha.v@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
ok, njan conventional pinavalikkunnu :) here are the definitions from web...<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Conventional medicine:</b> Medicine as practiced by holders of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses. Other terms for conventional medicine include allopathy and allopathic medicine; Western medicine, mainstream medicine, orthodox medicine, and regular medicine; and biomedicine.</span></div>
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<b>Traditional medicine (TM) </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">refers to the knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health and in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness. Traditional medicine covers a wide variety of therapies and practices which vary from country to country and region to region. In some countries, it is referred to as "alternative" or "complementary" medicine (CAM).</span></p>
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Traditional medicine has been used for thousands of years with great contributions made by practitioners to human health, particularly as primary health care providers at the community level. TM/CAM has maintained its popularity worldwide. Since the 1990s its use has surged in many developed and developing countries.</p>
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Hitha</p></span></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Hari Vishnu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harivishnu@gmail.com" target="_blank">harivishnu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Yea +1 to 'traditional' from me too.<br><br>But I guess the best usage for the word can be said only from the context you're referring to.<br>
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