Therapeutics

Therapeutics, Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. Treatment may be active, to cure a disease (requiring no further treatment after recovery), treat it long-term, or heal a wound; symptomatic, to relieve symptoms until the immune system heals the body; supportive, to keep body functions going until the disease clears; or palliative, to minimize discomfort for patients with no chance of recovery.

Autorentext

Dr. Ghazala Shaheen Lecturer University College of Conventional Medicine, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Dr. Tahira Shamim Lecturer University College of Conventional Medicine, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Dr Muhammad Akram, Lecturer, Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Hamdard University Karachi. Pakistan