Alternative and Traditional Medicine Research and Technology

This wide-ranging account of traditional medical practices is intended to provide health administrators and practitioners with background information that may help them improve health care coverage, especially in developing countries, through a judicious blending of orthodox and unorthodox health research. Areas covered in this publication include: systems and practices of traditional medicine, herbal medicines and herbal pharmacopoeias, traditional practices in different regions, and organizational and legal aspects of traditional medicine. It has taken the task of integration of scientific and traditional systems together and development of its teaching, training, treatment, research and national implementation in various combinations thought the world. The concept is concerned with both the educational pattern and service of integrated medicine.

Natural products represent one of the most important reservoirs of structural and chemical diversity for the generation of leads in the drug development process. In this review, the use and potential of  technologies as powerful tools in the modernization of traditional medicine are discussed. The analytical combination from each approach is crucial for understanding the working mechanisms of cells, tissues, organs, and organisms as well as the mechanisms of disease. Gradually approaches have been introduced in every stage of the drug development process to generate high-quality medicine-based drugs. Finally, the future picture of the use of technologies is a promising tool and arena for further improvement in the modernization of traditional medicine.