Industrial Chemistry and Water Treatment

Medicinal Chemistry: Fusion of Traditional Medicine

It is fusion of traditional and modern medicine or system or reductionist thinking. The difference between something personalized and participatory medicine. The truth is that modern medicine is desperately apart from new treatments. It takes years for a brand new drug to get through the research and development pipeline to manufacture and the cost is enormous. 74 per cent of U.S.A medical students believe that western medicine would benefit by integrating traditional or alternative therapies and practices.  Example –Artemisinin, which is extracted from Artemisia Annua or Chinese sweet wormwood, is the basis for the most effective malaria drugs the world has ever seen. There are many examples of traditional remedies used by people. Willow bark was used to treat headaches and fever. Quinine was used to treat malaria.