About Conference

5^th International Meeting on Traditional & Alternative Medicine is scheduled on April 23-24, 2019 at Rome, Italy.The theme of Traditional Medicine Congress is "Exploring New Horizons in Traditional & Alternative Medicine". Traditional Medicine Meeting will provide a broad range of academic disciplines in natural products entailing the discovery of natural products from natural sources along with their clinical uses to attract researchers in the field of traditional and alternative medicine. The conference will present Keynote presentations, Oral talks, Poster presentations, Symposia, Workshops, Exhibitions and Career development programs, making the forum a perfect platform to share advancements in Traditional & Alternative Medicines

By attending this conference, we invite you to experience Rome, the beautiful and famous city in Italy, which attracts people from around the world.

Session 1: Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine in which thin needles are inserted into the body. It is a key component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM theory and practice are not based upon scientific knowledge and acupuncture is a pseudoscience. There is a diverse range of acupuncture theories based on different philosophies, and techniques vary depending on the country. The method used in TCM is likely the most widespread in the United States. It is most often used for pain relief, though it is also used for a wide range of other conditions. Acupuncture is generally used only in combination with other forms of treatment.

Session 2: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the mainstream term for wellbeing and health treatments that have commonly not been a piece of regular Western drug. Complementary means treatments that are used along with conventional medicine. Alternative means treatments used in place of conventional medicine. CAM concentrates all in all individual and incorporates physical, passionate, mental and profound wellbeing. For example, CAM includes mind-body medicine (such as meditation, acupuncture and yoga), manipulative and body-based practices (such as massage therapy and spinal manipulation),

Session 3: Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine is a healing system developed in China more than 2,200 years ago, incorporating therapies that are in some cases. One of its guiding principles is to dispel evil and support the good. In addition to treating illness, Traditional Chinese Medicine focuses on strengthening the body's defenses and enhancing its capacity for healing herbs and to maintain health.

Session 4: Ayurveda & Physiotherapy

According to Ayurvedic hypothesis, everything in the universe living or not is connected. Good health is achieved when your body, mind, spirit are in harmony with the universe. A disruption of this harmony can lead to poor health and illness. Anything that affects your physical, spiritual or emotional well-being can cause you to be out of balance with the universe. Some things that can cause a disturbance include: Genetic birth defects, Injuries, Climate and seasonal changes, Emotions, Age.

Session 5: Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. It is not a plausible system of treatment, as its dogmas about how drugs, illness, the human body, liquids and solutions operate are contradicted by a wide range of discoveries across biology, psychology, physics and chemistry made in the two centuries since its invention. Homeopaths generally begin with detailed examinations of their patients' histories, including questions regarding their physical, mental and emotional states, their life circumstances and any physical or emotional illnesses. Homeopathic pills are made from an inert substance upon which a drop of liquid homeopathic preparation is placed and allowed to evaporate

Session 6: Folk Medicine and Remedies

Folk medicine is traditionally used as a term to describe healing skills that are associated with folk methods and that do not form part of formal medical training. This distinction is, however, primarily an academic construction and tells us little about the reality of everyday medicine as we are able to study it in a historical context. In Norway we have a range of written sources that in various ways describe how people treated diseases in earlier periods. Descriptions of journeys, medicinal reports, decrees and laws, as well as books of black magic, are all examples of important sources for the study of diseases, treatments and therapists from the time following the Reformation.

Session 7: Ethnomedicine and Traditional Medicine

Ethnomedicine is a study or comparison of the traditional medicine practiced by various ethnic groups, and especially by indigenous peoples. The word ethnomedicine is sometimes used as a synonym for traditional medicine. Ethnomedical research is interdisciplinary; in its study of traditional medicines, it applies the methods of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. Often, the medicine traditions it studies are preserved only by oral tradition.

Session 8: Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathic medicines and treatment are a distinct primary healthcare profession emphasizing prevention, treatment & optimal health care through the use of therapeutic methods and substances that encourage individuals inherent self-healing plants process. The practice of naturopathic medicines includes evidence based naturopathic medicines, modern and scientific, traditional, naturopathic treatments and practices and empirical methods.

Session 9: Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine, also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes. Herbalism has a long tradition of use outside conventional medicine. It is becoming more mainstream as improvements in analysis and quality control, along with advances in clinical research, show the value of herbal medicine in treating and preventing disease.

Session 10: Yoga and Mindfulness

Yoga is the Indic word for association and might be a 5000-year-old Indian collection of data. although a few consider yoga exclusively as an activity wherever people bend, turn, extend, and suspire the chief propelled manners. The art of Yoga soaks up the whole substance of the way of Life. Yoga offers a large number of mental and physical advantages. In the cutting edge time of yoga, progresses in innovation and openness of data enable specialists to verify these advantages that have been talked about for ages. Yoga offers a substantial number of mental and physical favorable circumstances. Inside the age of yoga, propels in innovation and availability of information empower scientists to check and demonstrate these advantages that are mentioned for generations.

Session 11: Toxicology Studies of Plant Products

They consist of a few noteworthy parts, for example, Ayurveda, Siddha, homeopathy and Chemoprevention of ailments by plant items and unani drugs for the treatment of CNS and mind issue. Restorative plants constitute a noteworthy part in these conventional frameworks. A few regulations and controls on the utilization of therapeutic plants in conventional solution have advanced in the present survey; we gathered and basically examined information in the anticipation of danger of disease drugs. The utilization of the word Toxicokinetics has changed in the course of the most recent decade and it is currently utilized, especially in the pharmaceutical business, to depict the era of pharmacokinetic information as a necessary segment in the behavior of nonclinical poisonous quality studies. The goal is to depict the systemic introduction to the test substance in creatures and its relationship to dosage level and the time course of the Toxicokinetics, creatures' models and measurement bunches

Session 12: Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine is the medical specialty dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of unforeseen illness or injury. It encompasses a unique body of knowledge as set forth in the “Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine.” The practice of emergency medicine includes the initial evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, coordination of care among multiple providers and disposition of any patient requiring expeditious medical, surgical, or psychiatric care.

Session 13: Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology of Medicinal Plants

Molecular biology offers promising tools for the creation of novel crop varieties with improved nutritional value, resistance to herbicides, pests, diseases, pollutants and adverse climatic conditions. Medicinal plants are the most important source of life saving drugs for the majority of the world's population. Plant optional metabolites are monetarily essential as medications, aromas, shades, sustenance added substances and pesticides. The biotechnological tools are important to select, multiply, improve and analyse medicinal plants.The utilization of nanotechnology for "phytotherapy" or treatment of different ailments by natural medications/drugs, including home grown medication conveyance where present and developing nanotechnologies.

Session 14: Holistic Nursing

Holistic Nursing is a nursing speciality concerned with the reconciliation of a person's mind, body, and spirit with their environment. Holistic nursing focuses on the mind, body, and spirit working together as a whole, and how spiritual awareness in nursing can help heal illness. Holistic medicine focuses on maintaining optimum well-being and preventing - rather than just treating - disease.

Session 15: Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants

Pharmacognosy is the investigation of restorative medications got from plants or other common sources. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines pharmacognosy as "the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources. Medicinal plants are a rich source of bioactive phytochemicals or bionutrients. Studies carried out during the past 2–3 decades have shown that these phytochemicals have an important role in preventing chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and coronary heart disease.

Global Market for Traditional Medicine:

The global alternative & complementary medicine market was valued at USD 40.32 billion in 2015. Owing to the increasing support by the masses, increased usage of traditional therapeutic methods has a scope for considerable growth in the coming decade. It was estimated that more than 60% of the global population uses some or the other form of traditional medicine as of 2015. The complementary & alternative medicine market is expected to generate a revenue of USD 196.87 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Factors such as the increase in adoption of alternative medicine by people combined with the government initiatives of a number of key countries to enhance reach is expected to help in expansion revenue generation avenues.

Ayurvedic medicines have seen the most exponential growth in the field of traditional medicine. It is valued at more than $75Bn by 2019 and has an annual growth rate of 6.6%. The herbal medicine market is valued at $71.19Bn and expected to grow fetching profitable gains. Medicinal plants are also gaining popularity due to their comparatively lower costs to allopathy. It has also been used to treat SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome in China. Tannins, flavonoids possess anti-cancer properties. They are expected to gain popularity due to the increasing cases of cancer.

Conclusion:

Traditional Medicine has contributed to human health care in the 21st century. There are many challenges to the safety and effective use of traditional medicine. The WHO Strategy will meet the gaps and challenges. One of the simplest and most effective ways to significantly lower health care costs and thus increase access is through a major focus on preventive medicine. In this clinical arena, many of the alternative health care systems may have much to offer. Homeopathic and naturopathic physicians, for example, strongly advise their patients about diet and other health-promoting lifestyle choices as a matter of routine care. In contrast, many conventional physicians do not routinely give such advice until a patient has already become chronically ill, by which time the patient may need expensive high-tech surgery and face a lifetime of expensive drug therapy. The widespread use of CAM therapies has implications not only for research but also for the education of conventional health care professionals. Health care professionals need to be informed about CAM and be knowledgeable enough to discuss with their patients the CAM therapies that their patients are using or thinking of using.