Natural medicine dates back to ancient civilizations when people always turned to nature for natural therapies that helped their physical and emotional body obtain balance and order, relieve pain, improve health and treat illnesses. Since time immemorial, man has recognized that nature has countless elements just waiting to be discovered as helpful remedies in mans health maladies.
Family medicine is a medical specialty concerned with providing continuing and comprehensive primary health care for parents and their child. It involves a very large field of medicine that is still relatively a new specialty under medicine in general. As enshrined in the goals of WHO making it a major field of medicine, "essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford.
It is without any doubt that modern medicine has advanced tremendously in terms of discovering and inventing methods and wonder drugs that have cured and treated various illnesses throughout the centuries. These have improved human life and extended the life expectancy of human beings. However, before these milestones, traditional medicine through the help of nature has for thousands of years have been affective as well in treating diseases and illnesses and it must not be discarded even with the power of modern medicine.
Though the advancements in medical science have brought us breakthroughs that have solved many problems in medicine including that if treating various illnesses, there are still those who continue and advocate the practice of alternative medicine and natural healing. It involves primarily methods of healing similar to those early days as compared to treatments done in conventional medicines such as administering synthetic drugs and performing surgical operations.
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