> With billions of people already using traditional medicines, the organization needs to explore how to integrate them into conventional healthcare and collabor

> With billions of people already using traditional medicines, the organization needs to explore how to integrate them into conventional healthcare and collaborate scientifically to understand their use more thoroughly, says Shyama Kuruvilla, WHO lead for the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine and the summit, who is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Many researchers who study traditional medicines agree — but some are not sure whether the summit will deliver. This seems like a noble approach. I mean say what you want about "quackery", but traditional medicine is rooted deep in many cultures. The west doesn't necessarily have an equivalent outside of Bacon's scientific method. It's not like you're making big pharma money with it.