Abstract
The traditional Thai medicine uses a comprehensive approach on the problem, not an examination process concentrating only on narrow basics. Always connections between diseases and numerous reasons for them are considered.
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According to the system of traditional Thai medicine diseases can be caused, except by the Tridosa, through:[1]
- Supernatural powers like the souls of the dead or also even spirits.
- Natural powers like imbalances of the four elements or of heat and cold.
- Cosmic powers like the positive and negative influences of the moon, the sun and the stars on the health of the humans.
- Kimijiati, which equals the microbes and parasites of modern medicine.
- The body is the location of the causes;
- the causes are the location of the elements;
- the elements are the location of the diseases;
- and the diseases are the location of the food[3]
- Cf. Chokevivat / Chuthaputti (2005), p. 2
- Cf. Mulholland (1979b), p. 30
- Cf. Brun / Schumacher (1994), p. 12
- Cf. Brun / Schumacher (1994), p. 13
- Cf. Dubos (1979), p. 102
- Cf. Golomb (1988), p. 766
Bibliography
Brun, V. / Schumacher, T. (1994): Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand. Bangkok 1994.
Chokevivat, V. / Chuthaputti, A. (2005): The Role of Thai Traditional Medicine in Health Promotion. Working Paper. 6GCHP Bangkok Thailand 2005 7-11 August 2005 Bangkok, Thailand.
Dubos, R. (1979): Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change. New York 1979.
Golomb, L. (1988): The Interplay of Traditional Therapies in South Thailand. In: Soc. Sci. Med. 8/1988. P. 761-768.
Mulholland, J. (1979b): Thai Traditional Medicine – The Treatment of Diseases Caused by the Tridosa. In: The South East Asian Review 2/1979. P. 29-38.
