Multidisciplinary Clinical Approach in Thai Traditional Medicine for Palliative Care

Abstract

Palliative care is holistic care that takes care of physical, mental, spiritual, and social problems by relying on a range of services delivered by a range of professionals whom all have equally important roles to play in support of the patient and their families, so this care is an important part of integrated people-centered health services. Consequently, understanding each other's clinical approaches is crucial which makes treatments with high efficiency. This article was written for multidisciplinary team or applied Thai traditional practitioners who would like to learn or understand how to use Thai traditional medicine to treat palliative patients by applying Thai traditional medicine's core knowledge and authors experience. According to the findings, Thai traditional medicine focuses on reducing patient discomforts, for example, pain, swelling, and numbness. Herbal remedies and manipulations, such as court-type Thai traditional massage, hot herbal compression, herbal patch, as well as personal’s guidance, are used to treat the condition. Thai traditional medicine treatment also aids in the relief of physical, mental, spiritual, and social problems. In addition, this treatment is an approach that improves the quality of life of the patient and their families.