La salud en las yungas ¿Cuales son los principales problemas según la medicina tradicional y la formal?

HILGERT, NORMA INÉS

Avances sobre Plantas Medicinales Andinas

RISAPRET/CYTED

Lugar: San Salvador de Jujuy; Año: 2009; p. 32 - 50

In the present work the traditional medicine of two regions is compared by considering the ailments identified as the most important and the herbal medicine used to treat them. As well, the most important illnesses according to their interpretation by the traditional health system and the biomedical one are presented. The differences found in the number of mentions and plants used to treat the different ailments in the traditional medicine from the two studied regions show that both medical systems recognize the same affections but with different considerations of importance. When comparing the traditional system with the biomedical one, the first remarkable difference is the conceptual organization of the causes of the health loss. Future actions that should promote the progressive interchange among both medical systems are discussed with the expectation that this contribute to integrate them in a single system in conformity with the interests of the patients.