Abstract

RODRIGUEZ GALLO, Carmen M; MEDINA CABALLERO, Graciela; CABRERA HERNANDEZ, Deysi  and  DIAZ HERNANDEZ, Elenia. Medicina Natural y Tradicional. Conocimientos y aplicaciones de enfermería en MINAS-II. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2002, vol.18, n.3, pp.138-143. ISSN 0864-0319.

Natural and traditional medicine procedures have the general common objective of preventing and treating diseases. Thus, the purposes of preserving health as well as life are inherent to these methods and to the live people so as to use "the good thing" and defend from "the bad thing". We undertook this study due to the importance of the topic. The universe of study was made up of 21 nurses who were administered surveys. Later these surveys served as primary data records. The results were processed in an IBM-compatible micro-computer and the following data were obtained: predominance of technical nursing staff that works in the community; one of the most used techniques was peloids mainly for treating headaches, and it was confirmed that 61.9% of the surveyed nurses had not taken any graduate courses, but they were able to successfully apply natural medicine. Therefore, we may conclude that the technical level of nurses working in the community prevailed; they fundamentally used peloids and applied natural and traditional medicine with good results.

Keywords : MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; EDUCATION, NURSING GRADUATE; CHRONIC DISEASE [therapy]; ACUPUNTURE THERAPY; MUD THERAPY.

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