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• 01 / 11 / 2010

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Natural and Traditional Medicine in Cuba helps to reduce the percentage of sick and the level of deaths caused by the toxicity of pharmaceutical medications.

 Eduardo Alfonso Alfonso, Master in Natural and Traditional Medicine, Specialist First Grade of Internal Medicine, with 42 years service, gave an interview at the "Miguel Enríquez" Hospital on  Natural and Traditional Medicine, its components and effective application in the treatment of many illnesses, which helps improve the quality of life.

 To begin the interview, the specialist mentioned a quotation from Hippocrates: "Nature is the doctor of illnesses" and he defined Natural and Traditional (MTN) Medicine as a wide profile specialty that embraces methods of health promotion, allows diagnosis, treatment and the rehabilitation of the patient.

The methods used include Traditional Chinese Medicine like Acupuncture, digitopuncture; as well as Homeopathy and Floral Aroma Therapy, although it also includes other natural resources such as mineral medicinal waters and mud, ozone, and the controlled use of magnetic fields and other sources of natural energy.

 During the interview, Professor Alfonso conceptualized Floral Aroma Therapy and the Homeopathy.

 Floral Aroma Therapy was created in 1936 by Edgard Bash, and it is considered a medical therapeutic system that uses essences of wild flowers with healing properties, in psychic as well as organic illnesses.

While, the Homeopathy, created in 1796 by Samuel Hahneman, is based on the principle of the similarity, with medications produced from natural substances (vegetable, animal and mineral), and is a causal treatment of individualized symptoms.

Later he explained that Floral Aroma Therapy achieves an adaptation of the patients in all the spheres, it applies the content of the healing elements to achieve the cure of any biological dysfunction, manifested in the illnesses; that they accompany psychological dysfunctions and alterations of a social type, for they can be used in treatments of arterial

hypertension, bronchial asthma, depressive syndromes, in a child's involuntary urination in the night, called bed-wetting, in addictions, in articulation pains, psychic illnesses, in stress and migraine, among others.

 In the case of Homeopathy, he specified that among its many applications it is used to fight anaemia in pregnant women.

 There are great achievements at this time in the country; he emphasized, like the integration of the resources of Natural and Traditional Medicine into the health services, the creation of centres for their development in several provinces, helping to offer more healthy and economic solutions in areas far from the medical services.

 Also, he referred, in cases of natural catastrophes; it just requires prepared personnel and the goodness that their environment offers.

The specialist specified that Natural and Traditional (MTN) Medicine was introduced into the National Health System in the 1990´s, when there was an urgent need to rescue the tradition of the use of medicinal plants and Chinese tradition.

 Source: www.radiometropolitana.cu