Traditional Knowledge-based Medicine: A Review of History, Principles, and Relevance in the Present Context of P4 Systems Medicine

Lemonnier, Nathanaël; Zhou, Guangying; Prasher, Bhavana; Mukerji, Mitali; Zhu, Chen; Brahmachari, Samir K.; Noble, Denis; Auffray, Charles; Sagner, Michael

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“…Mountain people living in remote areas have a sound harmony with nature along with a deep understanding of interacting sustainably with it [1,2]. They developed skills, beliefs and practices in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem [1].…”

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Traditional use of medicinal plants in the Chyangthapu-Phalaicha biological sub-corridor, Panchthar District, Kangchenjunga Landscape, Nepal

Bhandari

Gurung

Subedi

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Background: Chyangthapu-Phalaicha located in the northeastern Panchthar District, is a biodiversity hotspot in the Eastern Himalaya. The area is dominated by the Kirat indigenous community. The present study was conducted to document the knowledge of the ethnomedicinal uses and practices that exist in the area before the associated socio-cultural knowledge on biological diversity is lost. Methods: Ethnomedicinal data were collected through semi-structured questionnaires. Stakeholders meetings were organized for assessing the conservation issues in the sub-corridor. The importance of medicinal plant species was assessed using quantitative indices such as informant consensus factor, relative frequency of citation, relative importance, fidelity level and Rahman’s similarity index. Results: Altogether, 140 medicinal plant species from 68 families and 127 genera were reported, which were used to treat 12 health disorders categories. The dominant families were Asteraceae and Fabaceae which contributed eight species each. Fifty-five percent of the total medicinal plant species comprised of herbs. The most frequently used plant parts were underground parts (33%) and leaf (15%). The most common remedies preparation method was extract. Oral administration was the most common therapeutic mode (60%). Maximum informant consensus factor (0.96) was calculated for gastrointestinal disorders. The highest relative frequency of citation and fidelity level was observed for Swertia chirayita (0.83 and 100% respectively). Artemisia dubia depicted the highest relative importance (91.67). A thorough review of previous literature and analysis of field data revealed new therapeutic use reports for 41 ailments associated with 52 plant species. The Rahman similarity index was high with the studies in neighbouring areas, while it was low with the geographically distant studies. Conclusions: The ethnomedicinal study of the Chyangthapu-Phalaicha biological sub-corridor in the Kangchenjunga Landscape indicates that the area supports significant medicinal plants and associated traditional knowledge. The varied use of reported medicinal plants in the area indicates the need for their domestication, processing and phytochemical investigation, especially for those with high ethnobotanical indices.

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Traditional use of medicinal plants in the Chyangthapu-Phalaicha biological sub-corridor, Panchthar District, Kangchenjunga Landscape, Nepal

Bhandari

Gurung

Subedi

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“…(14) This model held true until the post-Renaissance period, when invention of current day medical tools, such as the microscope, stethoscope, and anaesthesia led to a proliferation of discoveries due to anatomical exploration. (15,16) The work of René Descartes is widely attributed to have resulted in the shift to a dualistic ontological view of the body, or the existence of mind and body as separate entities. (17) Viewing the body as a biological organism, and thus reducible to its constituent components, allows for the recreation of an ideal standard of good health; a standard in which disease is viewed as a deviation from the norm, to be rectified by medical intervention.…”

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Is biomedicine compatible with contemporary understandings of queerness?

Halliday

2021

The British Student Doctor Journal

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Medicine is widely considered a site of social power, one that in uences, and is in uenced by, social and cultural norms. As such, medicine is deeply intertwined with societal powers and has complex patriarchal roots, with a history of oppression and underserving marginalised communities. This is compounded by the rise of biomedicalisation in the nineteenth century, which centres the empirical scienti c method, further steering medicine from its foundations in social responsibility.The development of queer theory, on the back of feminist work since the 1960s, has shi ed cultural views on gender, sexuality, and human identity far from the pathologising models of queerness suggested by modern biomedicine. As these radical theories have developed, biomedical understandings of identity have expanded into the biopsychosocial model. However, it is uncertain whether biomedicine as a discipline will be able to fully integrate wider queer theory, due to a limiting language and framework based on patriarchal and empirical foundations. It is critical that the ideologies currently pervasive throughout medical schools accurately re ect contemporary thought on gender and sexuality. This article calls for a radical analysis of the frameworks for understanding gender and sexuality that exist within biomedicine. Contemporary understandings of queer theory, and how that applies to the human body and good health, must be integrated in the education of medical students.

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“…Unfortunately, modern medicine has not recognized many of the useful preventative approaches of Ayurveda, due to a cognitive bias against folk or traditional medicine. Even though traditional systems of medicine are still widely used in many countries around the world, more research on their preventative and therapeutic treatment programs is necessary [43].…”

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Ayurgenomics and Modern Medicine

Wallace

2020

Medicina

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Within the disciplines of modern medicine, P4 medicine is emerging as a new field which focuses on the whole patient. The development of Ayurgenomics could greatly enrich P4 medicine by providing a clear theoretical understanding of the whole patient and a practical application of ancient and modern preventative and therapeutic practices to improve mental and physical health. One of the most difficult challenges today is understanding the ancient concepts of Ayurveda in terms of modern science. To date, a number of researchers have attempted this task, of which one of the most successful outcomes is the creation of the new field of Ayurgenomics. Ayurgenomics integrates concepts in Ayurveda, such as Prakriti, with modern genetics research. It correlates the combination of three doshas, Vata, Pitta and Kapha, with the expression of specific genes and physiological characteristics. It also helps to interpret Ayurveda as an ancient science of epigenetics which assesses the current state of the doshas, and uses specific personalized diet and lifestyle recommendations to improve a patient’s health. This review provides a current update of this emerging field.

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Traditional Knowledge-based Medicine: A Review of History, Principles, and Relevance in the Present Context of P4 Systems Medicine

Cited by 53 publications

References 83 publications

Traditional use of medicinal plants in the Chyangthapu-Phalaicha biological sub-corridor, Panchthar District, Kangchenjunga Landscape, Nepal

Traditional use of medicinal plants in the Chyangthapu-Phalaicha biological sub-corridor, Panchthar District, Kangchenjunga Landscape, Nepal

Is biomedicine compatible with contemporary understandings of queerness?

Ayurgenomics and Modern Medicine

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