BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Traditional Asian Medicine, Blood Pressure, Tuberculosis
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A perspective, a framework, or a way of looking at things. Models are important because it in uences a person"s interpretations, decisions, and behaviours. Signs are things that one can see, such as spots on the skin. Symptoms are things that one can feel, such as fever or nausea. When one doles signs and symptoms of disease, practitioners begin treatment to try to cure the disease. When the individual returns to the natural position, which is the point where there is no signs or symptoms, the intervention stops. If the disease is not cured, disability and premature death can ensue. Traditional western medicine sees disease as caused by some agent in the environment. Eastern medicine sees illness as the result of imbalance or con ict in the body between the individual and their environment. Treatment includes manipulating the forces of nature to conquer the disease.