Traditional Medicine: A Modern Context Modern medicine is finally starting to accommodate traditional medicine, although traditional medicine is still neglected or considered a primitive form of treatment, providing nothing but effects placebo. According to the American National Cancer Institute, modern medicine is: A system in which doctors and other health care professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery. (NCI, par. 1) On the other hand, the World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as: The sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences of different cultures, both Chinese-American Charles Feng (2012) notes in the peer-reviewed Journal of Young Investigators that traditional medicine differs greatly in its philosophy from allopathic medicine and that the combination of traditional and allopathic medicine is more effective than either independent health system (para. 17). The integration of traditional medicine causes doctors to become familiar with the strong and weak aspects of both systems and expand their understanding of the health and treatment of their patients (para. According to Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), the most large global plant conservation network, the primary form of healthcare for five billion people is traditional plant-based medicine (Hawkins, 2006, p. 3). , 80% of the population relies primarily on traditional medicine, because allopathic healthcare systems are out of reach, both due to distance and cost (Elujoba, 2005, para. 4, professor of pharmacognosy at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, argues that an “effective health agenda” for the African continent can never be achieved with orthodox medicine alone unless it is integrated with the practice of traditional medicine” (par. 4) it would provide more funding to doctors practicing traditional medicine, allowing them to improve facilities and treatments. Countries that do not have access to traditional healthcare need to integrate traditional medicine into healthcare systems to provide support to the sector, continuing to make traditional healthcare a