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Mexico's Poor Using Alternative Medicine
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October 14, 2010
Toluca – Researchers from the Faculty of Anthropology of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), Irma Ramírez González and Federico Arzate Salvador, said this week that the lack of economic resources and social security are decisive factors that drive people to resort to traditional or alternative medicine.
They noted that two thirds of the world’s population frequently use “alternative” medical treatments.
Ramírez and Arzate added that geographical location is also an important factor, as several plants can be used to attend to specific illnesses and solve health problems in some regions.
They claimed that traditional medicine has a huge social impact, due to its low cost. They added that “official medicine” has modified its canons, accepting ideas and concepts that used to be marginalized.
Ramírez and Arzate said that there is a wide demand for alternative medicine, mainly in rural areas and indigenous regions, due to the frequent use of herbology which, according to scientific research, has been used for 25,000 years for attending to human health.
They noted that the scientific establishment often forgets the importance of alternative medicine, although most people use it despite the fact that its theoretical and technical frameworks do not coincide with those of “formal medicine.” |
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