Considerations of Eastern medicine as basic science not as an alternative method

Abstract

In Cuba in relation to health has achieved a scientific-technical development, where natural and traditional medicine (MNT) is maintained in almost all lines of work, both prevention and therapeutics. Nowadays, due to its magnificent results, it is successfully applied in many health institutions, with increasing numbers appearing for the cure of various diseases. Each of the techniques applied within the MNT is used by all health personnel with full knowledge MNT is not an alternative method if not a method used from our ancestors to the present.