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  2. Traditional Asian medicine - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Asian medicine is a collective term for several types of traditional medicine practiced in Asia. [1] These include the medical traditions of: East Asia China. Tibet; Japan (Kampo) Korea; Mongolia; Southeast Asia Cambodia; Indonesia (Jamu) Thailand; Vietnam; South Asia Ayurveda; Tamil Nadu (Siddha) West Asia Middle East (Unani) Iran

  3. Traditional medicine - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement and treatment of physical ...

  4. Traditional Cambodian medicine - Wikipedia

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    Khmer traditional medicine share with Chinese traditional medicine three explanatory models of disease: supernaturalistic theory, naturalistic theory, and maintenance of a hot-cold balance. Four forms of therapy are delivered by medical and para-medical personnel: spirit offerings, dermabrasion , maintaining hot-cold balance, and herbal medicines.

  5. Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Sowa Rigpa medicine, "Science of healing", "Science of awareness or nourishment" also known as Traditional Tibetan medicine (Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པ་, Wylie: bod kyi gso ba rig pa), is a centuries-old traditional medical system that employs a complex approach to diagnosis, incorporating techniques such as Venesection, Moxibustion, Compression ...

  6. Traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    Chinese physicians trained in Western medicine were required to learn traditional medicine, while traditional healers received training in modern methods. This strategy aimed to integrate modern medical concepts and methods and revitalize appropriate aspects of traditional medicine.

  7. Kampo - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Japanese medicine uses most of the Chinese methods, including acupuncture, moxibustion, traditional Chinese herbology, and traditional food therapy. Shennong (Japanese: Shinnō) tasting herbs to ascertain their qualities (19th-century Japanese scroll) Manase Dōsan (1507–94) who laid the foundations for a more independent Japanese ...

  8. Traditional Korean medicine - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the overshadowing of traditional practices by Western medicine led to the marginalisation of Korean identity and culture. Despite this criticism, there have been undeniable advancements in public health, including better disease control and medical technologies that have significantly improved the quality of life.

  9. Bomoh - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, healing rituals of some bomoh involved music and dance, such as the main puteri or main peteri (a trance-dance from Kelantan and Terengganu often connected to mak yong), the main lukah (a fisherman's dance from Pahang), and the main saba (which re-enacts the heavenly princesses [puteri kayangan] dancing around a saba tree).