Medicine goes back to its roots at Istanbul congress

First Lady Emine Erdoğan, who is known for her personal support for traditional and complementary medicine, is the congress's honorary president.

In a keynote speech at the congress, First Lady Erdoğan said traditional and complementary medicine is not an alternative to modern medicine, rather, as its name imply, complementary.

"Medicine is as old as humanity but the problem is that modern medicine has severed its ties to the past and ignores this vast experience.

"The importance of the field has come back under the spotlight recently. Ignoring the tradition or belittling it is an outdated approach," she said, adding that the colonialist approach in the world "unfortunately saw the path to the future in ignoring the past of nations."

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