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Abstract
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.
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18 entry terms
- Medicine, Traditional
- Traditional Healing
- Healing, Traditional
- Ethnomedicine
- Folk Medicine
- Folk Remedies
- Home Remedies
- Indigenous Medicine
- Medicine, Folk
- Medicine, Indigenous
- Medicine, Primitive
- Primitive Medicine
- Folk Remedy
- Home Remedy
- Remedies, Folk
- Remedies, Home
- Remedy, Folk
- Remedy, Home
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Indexed with the subheadings adverse effects, economics, history, instrumentation, methods, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
includes medicine among aborigines and other primitive cultures and folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term
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History Note
81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Traditional Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008519. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008519
- Traditional Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine
- Traditional Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q771035