title: Moxibustion. Another traumatic folk remedy.
abstract: An approach emphasizing an understanding of differing patient and family models of illness and the implementation of culturally appropriate health care is described. The physician who observes a practice such as moxibustion should attempt to gain an understanding of the parents' "model" of illness, develop and maintain rapport with the family, and attempt to develop a culturally appropriate treatment plan which minimizes the injurious practice. Counselors of the same ethnic group who are more acculturated to our society may be very helpful.
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology*; D002140:California; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology