Traditional medicine: a modern contextModern medicine is finally beginning to adapt to traditional medicine, even if traditional medicine is still neglected or considered a primitive form of treatment, no providing only placebo effects. According to the American National Cancer Institute, modern medicine is: A system in which doctors and other health care professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and illnesses using medications, radiation or surgery. (NCI, paragraph 1) On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as: The sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences specific to different cultures, regardless of whether they are explicable. Chinese-American Charles Feng (2012) notes in the peer-reviewed Journal of Young Investigators that traditional medicine differs greatly in its philosophy from allopathic medicine, and that the combination of medicine traditional and allopathic medicine is more effective than either independent health system (para. 17). The integration of traditional medicine leads doctors to become familiar with the strong and weak facets of either system, and to broaden their understanding of the health and treatment of their patients (para. According to Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), the world's largest plant conservation network, the primary form of health care for five billion people is traditional herbal medicine (Hawkins, 2006, p. 3). in developing countries, where 80% of the population relies primarily on traditional medicine, because allopathic health systems are out of reach, both due to distance and cost (Elujoba, 2005, para. 4, professor of pharmacognosy at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, argues that an "effective health program" for the African continent can never be achieved by orthodox medicine alone unless it is supplemented by medicine. practice of traditional medicine” (para. 4). The institutionalization of traditional medicine would provide more funding to doctors who practice traditional medicine, allowing them to improve facilities and treatments. Countries that do not have access to traditional health care must integrate traditional medicine into health systems to support the industry, while continuing to make traditional health care a