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  • Medicine, African Traditional

Medicine, African Traditional(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Medicine, African Traditional
Used for/see from:
  • n: African Medicine
  • n: African Traditional Medicine
  • n: Medicine, African
  • n: Medicine, Traditional African
  • n: Traditional African Medicine
  • African Medicine, Traditional
  • African Witch Doctor
  • Traditional Medicine, African
  • Witch Doctor, African
  • n: African Witch Doctors
  • n: Doctor, African Witch
  • n: Doctors, African Witch
  • n: Witch Doctors, African

IM; not medicine in Africa ( = MEDICINE + AFRICA); apply policy of Manual 32.13 to this term; apply TN J/29-36 on Chinese plants to indexing of African plants where applicable; specify geog; DF: MED AFRICAN TRADITIONAL

A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the African peoples. It includes treatment by medicinal plants and other materia medica as well as by the ministrations of diviners, medicine men, witch doctors, and sorcerers.

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