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Chapter 2
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thatman is wholly dependent upon plants. They need the plant kingdom
for their very existence. The foods that he eats, the oxygen that he
and varied vegetation. This provides not only food for man but also the
means to preserve health and to recover from sickness. Man should avail
himself more extensively of the benefits which the Creator placed in the
vegetable kingdom.1
The early 90's seemed hopeful for the merging of western and
Philippines.2
Yet the nature has many plants to offer to cure various diseases,
there came the new inventions of different scientists and as time passed
healing plants are replaced by new sets of medicinal drugs that effects
easily without passing through many processes unlike with the use of
plants.
“There is now anongoing romance between the West and the East as
which the active form of drugs has been isolated and formulated.” 3
prescription drugs is not that easy especially for those in the rural area
especially in NCR and Region III. As private physicians charge for their
study of the origins of its people and amalgam of cultures and influences:
healing arts, tribal and provincial diversities with its profusion of folklore
and mythologies, all redounding into the Filipino’s easy disposition for
superstitions and the allure for the esoteric, mystical, and fringe.5
The early 90’s seemed hopeful for the merging of western and
Philippines.6
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as new drugs are developed and new uses are found for old drugs.
aspirin, have been used clinically for many hundreds of years. Many
origin. At first, drugs were often rather crude, and pharmacognosy, the
drugs. Drugs may also be obtained from animal or mineral sources. Most
counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite the
same. They differ in price, in place of origin, in color, shape, and size, in
the dyes, binders, fillers, and coatings used, and in a host of other ways.
the original drug in all respects, but in being the same in all ways that
matter.9
has been more important for his advocacy of certain other principles,
another alternative medicine cartoon, this one dating from the early
1800s. 11
for emotional and physical healing. The discipline has evolved over
which people can anticipate—and even feel entitled to—lives that are
that African traditional medicine is the oldest, and perhaps the most
its varied forms is holistic involving both the body and the mind. The
the African healthcare system can be justified by two major reasons. The
has been reported that Africa has some 216 million hectares of forest,
but the African continent is also notorious to have one of the highest
the paradox is that in spite of this huge potential and diversity, the
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from: http://www.stuartxchange.com/Herbal.html
2007. Print.