The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as “the sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures that are used to maintain health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, improve or treat physical and mental illnesses”.
 

 An examples of widely known traditional systems of medicine include Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Ayurvedic medicine, Islamic Medicine, and Tibb Nabawi or medicine of the Prophet.