Concept information
Preferred term
Traditional Medicine Practitioners
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Healers, Traditional
- Healer, Traditional
- Health Practitioners, Traditional
- Health Practitioner, Traditional
- Practitioners, Traditional Health
- Practitioner, Traditional Health
- Traditional Healer
- Traditional Healers
- Traditional Health Practitioner
- Traditional Health Practitioners
Scope note
- Health personnel using systems of medicine based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation, including mystical and magical rituals (SPIRITUAL THERAPIES); TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; PHYTOTHERAPY; HERBAL MEDICINE; and other treatments which may not be explained by modern medicine.
History note
- 2023
In other languages
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Finnish
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kansanlääkinnän harjoittaja
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kansanlääkinnän harjoittajat
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kansanparantaja
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Swedish
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Etnobotaniker
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Fytoterapeuter
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Komplementär- och alternativmedicinare
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Medicinmän
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Shamaner
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Örterapeuter
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000095083
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