The treatments used in traditional medicine can be divided into three categories based on the
methods used in healing and/or maintaining health:
medication therapies
using herbal medicines and/or medicines derived from animal partsand/or minerals;
non-medication therapies
using manual (e.g. massage), physical (e.g. qigong, t’ai chich’uan), mental (e.g. meditation, hypnosis) and spiritual (e.g. religious-magic) methods of treatment or a combination of these methods (yoga);
mixed therapies
combining medication and non-medication therapies.
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