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Journal of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine(JAPM)

ISSN: 2474-9206 | DOI: 10.33140/JAPM

Impact Factor: 1.8

Re-Think Recovery: Food is Medicine

Abstract

Chioma Adeyemi and Afolabi Ezekiel

“Let food be thy medicine or medicine be thy food”. This is the famous quote of Hippocrates; who till date medical doctors and historians consider as the founder of medicine as a rational science. In his time about 400BC, advised people to prevent and treat diseases first by eating a nutrient-dense diet. Traditional medicine refers to the knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the maintenance of health and in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness.

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