Complementary and Traditional Medicine for Diabetes Prevention in Aboriginal Community

Running head: COMPLEMENTARY AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
COMPLEMENTARY AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE ASSIGNMENT
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Introduction
Complementary and traditional medicine is a stream of healthcare that is followed in the
Australian society and with standard healthcare procedure; it is used extensively for the health
and wellbeing of communities (Gale, 2014). As per Gureje et al. (2015), there are several,
aspects of complementary and traditional medications that is used extensively by the Australian
population such as the naturopathy or the ayurveda, the homeopathy and the Chinese medication
therapy. Within this, ayurveda or naturopathy is termed as one of the crucial and critical
healthcare therapy used by the Australian population around the world and it was mentioned that
due to its ability to make balance between body, mind and spirit, it helped the population
utilising the Complementary and traditional medicine therapy as an important factor for their
mental as well as physical health and wellbeing (Adams, Tovey and Easthope, 2017).
Aboriginal community of Australia is one such community that have their own abilities
and believes in healthcare and they also have their own traditional medication therapy. However,
it was seen that majority of the community members are suffering from critical health condition,
namely diabetes and it was seen that every 1 in 10 Australian is suffering from diabetes condition
in Australia. Further, it is recorded that the number of individual affected with diabetes type 2 in
indigenous community, is 4 times higher than the non-indigenous community.
Hence, the primary aim of this grant proposal paper is to provide a detailed research
about the application of ayurveda for the increasing diabetes related health complication among
the population of aboriginal community and then provide a narrative of healthcare promotional
project. This would provide a detailed insight of the method, procedure, objectives outcome and

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evaluation of the project. Finally a budget for the complete health promotional program would be
developed so that a detailed funding structure could be obtained.
Thesis statement: application of complementary and traditional medicine Ayurveda or
naturopathy among the Australian aboriginal community for their diabetes condition is helpful in
preventing the occurrence and prevalence of disease.
Background and literature review
Prior to apply for the grant proposal to the Australian government, it is important that a
clear and concise understanding of the applied intervention could be conducted. In a research
conducted by Banerjee et al. (2015), the primary aim of the researchers was to analyse the
preventive and interventional aspect of ayurveda on diabetes and it was seen that in ayurveda, the
principles that are used to classify patients affected with diabetes are ‘sthula’ or obese and
‘Krisha pramehi’ or lean but affected with diabetes. It was observed in this review paper that
diabetes mellitus is a multifactorial medication that affects the population by 20 different stages
(Medagama and Bandara, 2014). Further, ayurveda also mentions that with application of proper
diet and medication, that affects the primary reasons, causes, features and therapeutic units of the
disease condition, prevention could be achieved (Rastogi, 2019). Further to treat the obese and
lean patient, the ayurveda provided a detailed assessment of the process. For obese individual,
the excess fat of the individual either could be purified thorugh processes or could be reduced
thorugh yoga, diet and medicines and hence therapeutic interventions of ayurveda for obese and
diabetic individual is equal to the modern healthcare approaches as mentioned by Peltzer et al.
(2015). Therefore, in such condition, it becomes important to answer the reason due to which this
ayurveda treatment is applied on the healthcare aboriginal communities, if they are having access