Traditional healing systems grew naturally over centuries and became integral to different societies and civilizations worldwide. They were already well-rooted as the community’s primate healthcare practices several decades before the relatively Western biomedical boom. Modem medicine has unquestionably developed the approach to many restructurings, but it needs to ensure a universal distribution throughout the globe. Millions of human lives in broad areas occupied by extensive rural territories lying around such vast countries as African, Asian, and South American ones stay upon lack of the necessary medical treatment. Some factors restricting biomedicine in these regions include underfunding public health infrastructure, the need for more facilities and providers, and geographical and economic barriers that ultimately hamper its spread. Thus, biomedicine does a poor job of serving the primary care needs of deprived individuals living in remote communities, tribal areas, and impoverished sections of heavily populated cities worldwide.

These are the communities denied medical infrastructure, whereby traditional healing remains relevant. Such conduct throughout generations of operational perfection and societal enmeshment act as a readily available treatment that coincides with local beliefs in values regarding finances. They stay among the people they treat with botanical remedies and clinical eyes. In such interest, practices of traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, African Traditional Medicine, and indigenous formulations find their relevant place. Systems such as acupuncture and herbalism treat chronic conditions for which modern alternatives are still constrained. Endemic tropical diseases are also treated with botanical therapies of traditional knowledge. Perhaps most importantly, traditional healers remain available, inexpensive primary care providers for billions worldwide who inhabit remote areas beyond.

Writing off traditional medicine leads to a crisis of equity since the marginalized communities deprived of biomedical services are pushed further away. However, replacing contemporary practices with old practices does not look ethical either, as understanding the safety and efficacy of all traditional therapies still needs to be completed. A good solution is considered complementary rather than conflicting different worldviews. If selective biomedical knowledge gap filling using traditional medicine was validated regionally, could such an approach go global? Where modern resources fail, traditional medicine is a life wire that sustains the human right to health.

At the same time, its sociocultural integration empowers the engagement and responsibility of individuals in health issues. The content of the consultation for traditional healers is preventive, meaning that holistically, it can advise people against diseases by a balanced approach to using nature’s epigenesis instead. This perspective corresponds with modern aims for multiversal well-being. In areas that seem to be underserved at present by biomedicine, the failure of it does not take due account of traditional healing and ignores its essential place for most. On the other hand, a balanced way of combining the validated traditional and modern practices ensures health equity through culturally congruent solutions in the middle ground. Partnership rather than displacement is thus the most necessary stepping stone to take a pragmatic and compassionate path towards refining global health for all – which purposes both medical paradigms.

Though rigorously validating traditional practices is yet to be upheld, maintaining their role alongside biomedicine by implementing selective integration facilitates global justice-oriented, culture-sensitive, and sustainable health options.

Definition of terms

Traditional healing system- This medical or healthcare practice established over time has survived through different centuries across various cultures, such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. It relied on indigenous theories and beliefs gained from oral tradition practices used years ago and paid used to general subsequent ones.

Contemporary global health is a here-and-now notion of ‘present’ in that one relates to contemporary issues, challenges, priorities, and solutions applied specifically to modern society. It includes the medical issues found worldwide in the 21st century, and one of these problems is diabetes.

Chronic pain: Persistent pain lasting two months. It usually carries very severe emotional and functional impairment.

Scientific epistemology: The philosophy of science is the field concerned with knowledge as truth and its study. It deals with how science determines, produces, and assesses knowledge claims through logic.