TY - CHAP AU - Silvio Leite Monteiro da Silva ED - Cengiz Mordeniz Y1 - 2018-12-31 PY - 2018 T1 - La Gioconda Effect and Self-Organizing Factors of Biofield N2 - Modern medicine has reached a point where the patient is not treated as a biopsychosocial-spiritual being but rather is seen as a virtual identity consisting of laboratory findings and images. More focus is placed on relieving the symptoms instead of curing the disease. Mostly, patients are turned into lifetime medication-dependent individuals. New medicines are needed to overcome the side effects, complications, resistance, and intolerance caused by pharmacological and interventional therapies. In hopes of drug-free and painless alternative treatments with fewer complications, there has been a trend to revisit traditional methods that have been dismissed by modern medicine. Traditional medicine has to be reevaluated with modern scientific methods to complement and integrate with evidence-based modern medicine. BT - Traditional and Complementary Medicine SP - Ch. 4 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.81625 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.81625 SN - 978-1-78985-377-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -