Monthly Archives: February 2013
Female healer-2
During a conversation, she took name of nearly a dozen diseases, about two dozen herbs and various other materials including animal parts that she uses them differently following her own formulation to prepare medicine. She, 62 year, having...
Female healer
We seldom get chances to meet female healers. Although the mother in each family in most of the families of our communities in Nepal is really a repository of indigenous medicinal knowledge and practices, normally, she put limit her practices...
Benchmarks for Training in Traditional / Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This document comprises benchmarks for training in Ayurveda.
In 2003, a WHO resolution (WHA56.31) on traditional medicine urged Member States, where appropriate, to formulate and implement national policies and regulations on traditional and...
National Policy on TM and Regulation of Herbal Medicines
Various types of traditional medicine (TM) and medical practices referred to as complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), have been increasingly used in both developing and developed countries. One of the major components of the WHO Traditional...
Regulatory Situation of Herbal Medicines – A Worldwide Review
The WHO Traditional Medicine Programme
The World Health Assembly (WHA) has adopted a number of resolutions drawing attention to the fact that a large section of the population in many developing countries still relies on traditional medicine,...