Integration of Pharmacotherapy and Non-Pharmacotherapy
Pharmacotherapy has been the predominant form of therapy for human diseases and disorders since the early onset of human kind. In earlier days,drugs were given in medical,religious,aesthetic,recreational and magical ways in the shape of herbs,potions and mixtures.As pharmacotherapy grew with scientific advancement,the more pure,homogeneous,and of limited benefit,pharmacotherapy became.Although diseases were controlled with pharmacotherapy,total healing still remained unachieved. Even from earlier days eclectic physicians were using non-pharmacotherapies with pharmaeotherapies to bring better therapeutic success and better healing.In recent years we have accepted the holistic approach of treatment for human suffering and this approach has ignited and accelerated the integration of pharmacotherapies with non-pharmacotherapies. Besides,the acceptance of bio,psycho,socio and ecological bases of human diseases have clearly pointed that for total recovery every basis and every etiological factor should be treated by a holistic approach of therapies. Thus,present day management of human diseases demands and requires the integrated treatment of pharmacotherapy with non-pharmacotherapy for the complete recovery of suffering patients.This paper will describe the various ways of the integration of holistic treatment methods of today and of the future.
integration pharmacotherapy non-pharmacotherapy
Amarendra N.Singh
WHO Professor in Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychopharmacology Chair, Division of Psychopharmacology, Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Toxicology,Queen”s University, Canada;Director and Chief of Psychiatry, Academic Unit, Queen”s University, Canada
国内会议
北京
英文
24-24
2010-09-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）