Continued--Despite taking care of sanitation and personal hygiene ill health from time to time can hardly be avoided . To meet such contingency medical consultation becomes essential, although there are wide scale practice of consuming number of medicines without prescription by medical authority. Medical authority belongs to different system which has been classified into two broad groups viz ;- 1.Allopathic system of Medicine 2.Alternative system of Medicine All the quick acting modern medicines backed up by pathological , bacteriological, scan laboratories and surgery etc provides the key treatment to the patients. The fact remains that this system has been able to do away with many communicable diseases from the face of the earth although it has not been successful to control several diseases for which researches have been on to find improved therapy. Alternative system has indeed innumerable branches which are unique in some countries and some are available in specific countries. Allopathic system is universal but not the other system but what is pertinent to point out that some alternative system like Ayurveda ( originating in India and still being practised ) is one of oldest system of medicine in the world. So also the Chinese system of medicine confined within China. Indigenous system of medicines even now in vogue in many countries not only amongst the aboriginal people but also in the civilized societies. In the middle ages Hakimi another alternative system of medicine was routinely used in many countries and have not gone out totally. In came Homeopathy with low expenditure medicine getting popular in the underdeveloped /developing countries. Other alternative medicines contain treatment without prescribing any medicine---acupressure, acupuncture,magneto therapy, reiki, chanting mantras (verses in sanskrit ),. Besides these there are so many therapies like aroma therapy, hydro therapy, color therapy etc. By using different natural spices, flowers and fruits etc known as natural treatment people have been getting teatment from ancient time. ( to be continued......)
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