The development of scientific research is essential to achieve the aims of the Paracelso Institute
The experience of the past can be brought back to life only on condition that it deals with the scientific method. However, the scientific method should respect the peculiar features of traditional medicine, avoiding that empirical evidence be sacrificed to scientific investigation, which in turn should also be constantly verified, developed and adjusted to the subject under study.
Research targets:
- Progress in the knowledge of the mechanisms of traditional treatments and possible synergies with them.
- Verification of the scope of intervention of traditional medicine in the light of the ongoing progress of knowledge on the diseases that can benefit from traditional treatments.
- Study of the possibilities to address diseases whose traditional treatment was not well defined in the past (hypertension, AIDS, cancer, etc).
- Medico-social research addressed to identify the areas where traditional medicine is beneficial in terms of lower social cost, increased therapeutic efficacy and more satisfactory results.
- Study of the scientific method in relation to the basic theories handed down by tradition and having proved a long-established validity.
- The scientific research developed inside the activities of the Paracelso Institute is considered not as an end in itself, but as a source of concrete intervention instruments for the modern clinical work.
Subsections
Institutions established by the Institute to promote scientific research in acupuncture
Publications on research methodology
The major research programs of the Institute