Many of the common names people use for their sicknesses were first used long before anyone knew about germs or bacteria or the medicines that fight them.
Different diseases caused more or less similar problems such as high fever or pain in the side were often given a single name. In many parts of the world, these common names are still used. City trained doctors often neither know nor use these names. For this reason, people sometimes think they apply to sicknesses doctors do not treat. So they treat these home sicknesses with herbs of home remedies.
Actually, most of these home sickness or folk disease are the same ones known to medical science, only the names are different.
For many sicknesses, home remedies work well. But for some sicknesses, treatment with modern medicines works much better and may be life saving. This is especially true for dangerous infections like pneumonia, tyyphoid, tuberculosis or infections after giving birth.
To know which sickness definately require modern medicines and to decide what medicine to use. It is important that you try to find out what the disease is in the terms used by trained health workers.Sicknesses that are given the same name
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