Advancing pluralistic healthcare

The injustice done to traditional medicine must be rectified through its nationwide expansion.

Nepal has a long history of traditional systems of medicine including ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, Unani, sowa-rigpa, and homoeopathy, as well as health traditions of jadi-buti and traditional healing. However, our healthcare system is dominated by biomedicine, marginalising traditional medicine methods and their legitimacy. The country, therefore, has not fully embraced medical pluralism .