Folk medicine

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Used for

primitive medicine, traditional medicine (folk), witch doctor

See for

herbal medicine, herbal tea

Broader Terms

alternative medicine

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • Folk medicine is sometimes associated with quackery when practiced as theatrics or otherwise practiced fraudulently, and sometimes with witchcraft and often with shamanism, yet it may also preserve important knowledge and cultural tradition from the past.
  • Lithuanian Folk Medicine Rita Balkut translated by Giedr Ambrozaitien Folk medicine is a part of Lithuanian traditional culture.
  • Folk Medicine Folk medicine is an unofficial health-related practice that has traditionally existed, and is learned informally by word of mouth, and through observation and demonstration.
  • One of the largest and most widely used systems of folk medicine is called curanderismo.
  • 1 January 1997 Folk Medicine by Peggy S.
  • CROW'S Arthritis and Folk Medicine About the usefulness of iodine Dr.
  • In the centuries since the European conquest there has doubtless been some contamination of the folk medicine with European medicine.
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