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Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine is 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 or treatment of physical and mental illness.
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See also: WHO Traditional medicine strategy
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WHO Congress on Traditional Medicine, 7-9 November 2008, Beijing, China
More information
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Definitions of Traditional medicine terms
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WHO Collaborating Centres for Traditional medicine
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WHO Fact sheet
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Executive Board and World Health Assembly Resolutions
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Publications
For further enquiries please contact:
E-mail: trm@who.int
Dr Xiaorui Zhang
HTP/TCM
WHO/Geneva
Fax: +41 22 791 4730
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