Health Assessment

The object of physiomedical practice is the use of herbal medication to restore vitality and return the body’s function to normal. In this sense ‘normal’ is the absence of symptoms of any kind, a positive state reflecting good physical and mental health. ‘Abnormal’ is any process which is a deviation from normal, and can represent both dysfunctional processes as well as positive compensatory mechanisms, such as enhanced elimination (Priest and Priest 1982, 3).