The taking of a medical history also reveals the difference between ours and the traditional approach. Traditional medicine is centered on the body and its various organs. It is called anthropocentric, or body-centered, medicine. A traditional doctor is mainly concerned with treating the body and focusing primarily upon the most distressing physical symptom or “chief [...]
The bleeding from an injured tongue, even when it merely results from an accidental self-inflected bite, is often prolonged and alarming. Usually though, such bleeding can quickly be brought under control, without stitches or help from a doctor, if the victim firmly holds something over the site of bleeding to compress it. A wet handkerchief [...]
Symptom: Pain in legs or feet occurring only while the child is resting or sleeping
Home care:
Massage or apply heat to painful muscles.
Give aspirin or paracetamol for pain.
Having the child wear sturdier shoes may reduce the frequency or severity of the pains.
Growing pains can be quite severe and it’s important to reassure and comfort the child.
Precaution:
If [...]