Folk medicine consists of the healing practices and ideas of body physiology and health preservation known to some in a culture, transmitted informally as general knowledge, and practiced or applied by anyone in the culture having prior experience. Folk medicine may also be referred to as traditional medicine, alternative medicine, indigenous medi...
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(from the article `Central Asian arts`) Rituals for curing the sick, guiding the soul of the dead to the netherworld, invoking a deity, or visiting the heavens are performed by the shaman ... ...study of the botanical knowledge of a social group and its use of locally available plants in foods, medicines, clothing, or religious rituals....
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Treatment of ailments outside of organised medicine by remedies and simple measures based upon experience and knowledge handed on from generation to generation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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the use of home remedies and procedures as handed down by tradition.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. treatment of ailments outside clinical medicine by remedies and simple measures based on experience and knowledge handed down from generation to generation.
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health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, esp. food substances.
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