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.
Synonyms: Medicine, Indigenous, Remedies, Folk, Home Remedies, Traditional Medicine, Remedies, Home, Folk Remedy, Folk Medicine, Ethnomedicine, Medicine, Folk, Indigenous Medicine, Primitive Medicine, Medicine, Primitive, Home Remedy, Remedy, Folk, Remedy, Home, Medicine, Traditional, Folk Remedies
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use MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL to search MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1966-80, FOLK MEDICINE 1966-77, & FOLKLORE 1968-77 ,81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77 ,includes medicine among aborigines and other primitive cultures and folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term
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