In the years 1923 and 1936 most traditional practitioners lost their license. But in the late 70s the traditional Thai medicine started to gain more attention again.
Since 1979 Thailand started to follow the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO), articulated in the declaration of Alma Ata, to integrate traditional medicine into the national health system. Especially in remote rural areas public herbal clinics and traditional practitioners are important for the medical treatment of the people.
The traditional Thai medicine is divided into three branches from historical times until today. The therapies for the mind through spiritual healing, the energy therapy through Thai massage, the body therapy through diets and herbal medicine.
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.
Besides numerous factors like wrong nutrition and physical over exercise also mental states like deep sorrow or extreme joy and extreme anger or lack of equanimity are consideres as causes for disease.
