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Traditional medicine provides health care to many around the globe – the WHO is trying to make it safer and more standardized

  • Written by Ling Zhao, Professor of Nutrition, University of Tennessee
Traditional medicine provides health care to many around the globe – the WHO is trying to make it safer and more standardizedAyurveda is one form of traditional medicine that can integrate aromatherapy. It's popular in South Asia. Microgen Images/Science Photo Library

For approximately 80% of the world’s population, the first stop after catching a cold or breaking a bone isn’t the hospital — maybe because there isn’t one nearby, or they...

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