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  • Medicine, Traditional

Medicine, Traditional(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Medicine, Traditional
Used for/see from:
  • n: Indigenous Medicine
  • n: Primitive Medicine
  • n: Traditional Medicine
  • Ethnomedicine
  • Folk Medicine
  • Folk Remedies
  • Home Remedies
  • Medicine, Folk
  • Medicine, Indigenous
  • Medicine, Primitive
  • n: Folk Remedy
  • n: Home Remedy
  • n: Remedies, Folk
  • n: Remedies, Home
  • n: Remedy, Folk
  • n: Remedy, Home

includes medicine among aborigines and other primitive cultures and folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term

Systems of medicine based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation. The concept includes mystical and magical rituals (SPIRITUAL THERAPIES); PHYTOTHERAPY; and other treatments which may not be explained by modern medicine.

81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77

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