With billions of people already using traditional medicines, the organization needs to explore how to integrate them into conventional healthcare and collaborate scientifically to understand their use more thoroughly, says Shyama Kuruvilla, WHO lead for the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine and the summit, who is based in Geneva, Switzerland
This is the important bit for me. A lot of people are already doing it, so it’s worth exploring why they are and how it could affect other treatments (ex. harmless placebo, harmful action, if it increases / decreases compliance with other treatments, mental health and mindset, etc.).
I’m hoping this may also help some of the people who tend to disregard western medicine as simply an arm of big pharma. If they can see an organization like WHO reaching out to traditional medicine, it may help them accept those sorts of organizations. One of the biggest problems with people like that is that so much of what they are afraid of, and complain about, are legitimate complaints, they’re just levied at the wrong groups, because they lump everything together, from their local PCP to Pfizer to the WHO. Maybe this can help a little bit.
This is the important bit for me. A lot of people are already doing it, so it’s worth exploring why they are and how it could affect other treatments (ex. harmless placebo, harmful action, if it increases / decreases compliance with other treatments, mental health and mindset, etc.).
I’m hoping this may also help some of the people who tend to disregard western medicine as simply an arm of big pharma. If they can see an organization like WHO reaching out to traditional medicine, it may help them accept those sorts of organizations. One of the biggest problems with people like that is that so much of what they are afraid of, and complain about, are legitimate complaints, they’re just levied at the wrong groups, because they lump everything together, from their local PCP to Pfizer to the WHO. Maybe this can help a little bit.
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