[Health] Lesson 2 - QUACKERIES AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE MODALITIES (1st qtr)

a form of a health fraud in the advertisement, promotion, or sale of products and services that have not been scientifically proven safe and effective.

Quackery

is defined as an ignorant pretender to medical skill; one who professes to have knowledge or skill concerning subjects of which he/she is ignorant; an empiric or impostor in medicine.

quack

- includes cures, treatments, and remedies to various health conditions that are drugless or bloodless in nature.

Medical Quackery

- involves promotion of food fads and other nutritional practices that claim to be all-natural.

Nutrition Quackery

- makes use of miraculous gadgets (such as dials, gauges, electrodes, magnets, and blinkers) that are believed to cure certain health conditions.

Device Quackery

- it is the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.

Herbal medicines

also called "ringworm bush or shrub"

- This Philippine herbal medicine is used to treat tinea infections, insect bites, ringworms, eczema, and itchiness.

Akapulko (Cassia alata)

also called "bitter melon" or "bitter gourd"

- This Philippine herbal medicine has been found to be effective in the treatment of diabetes, cough, burns, and scalds. It is being studied for anticancer properties.

Ampalaya (Momordica charantia)

- is a Philippine herbal medicine with anti-bacterial, antiinflammatory, anticancer, antihypertensive properties to treat infection. It is also widely used to reduce cholesterol level in blood.

Bawang (Allium sativum)

- This Philippine herbal medicine used as antiseptic, antiinflammatory, anti-microbial, anti - plasmodial, and anti-cough.

Bayabas (Psidium guajava)

also known as a "5-leaved chaste tree"

- This is used in Philippine herbal medicine to treat cough, colds, and fever. It is also used as a relief for asthma and pharyngitis, rheumatism, dyspepsia, boils, and diarrhea.

Lagundi (Vitex negundo)

also known as "Chinese honeysuckle"

- This Philippine herbal medicine is used to eliminate intestinal parasites.

Niyog-niyogan (Quisqualis indica L.)

also called "Ngai camphor or Blumea camphor"

- This is a Philippine herbal medicine used to treat kidney stones, wounds, and cuts, rheumatism, diarrhea, spasms, colds, coughs, and hypertension.

Sambong (Blumea balsamifera)

- This is a Philippine herbal medicine taken as a tea to treat skin allergies including eczema, scabies, and itchiness of wounds in childbirth.

Tsaang gubat (Ehretia microphylla Lam.)

This is a Philippine herbal medicine known for being effective in treating arthritis and gout.

Ulasimang bato bato/ pansitpansitan (Peperomia pellucida)

This is used in Philippine herbal medicine as analgesic to relieve body aches and pain due to rheumatism and gout. It is also use to treat coughs, colds, and insect bites.

Yerba Buena (Clinopodium douglasii)

- This type of complementary medicine involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles used to alleviate pain and to treat various physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

Acupuncture

- A unique healing treatment that uses heat resistant glasses and candles creating a vacuum to draw out accumulated cold on the back.

Ventosa Massage Cupping Therapy

- Is the application of appropriate pressure to specific points and areas on some parts of the body.

Reflexology

- Is an alternative medicine based on the theory that diseases can be successfully treated or prevented without the use of drugs, by techniques such as control of diet and massage.

Naturopathy