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Therapeutics > Complementary Therapies > Medicine, Traditional

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Medicine, Traditional  

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  • Traditional Medicine

Note

  • includes medicine among aborigines and other primitive cultures and folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77

In other languages

  • kansanlääkintä

    Finnish

  • kansanomainen lääkintätaito
  • kansanparannus
  • perinnelääkintä
  • perinteinen kansanlääkintä
  • Traditionell medicin

    Swedish

  • Etnomedicin
  • Folkläkekonst
  • Folkmedicin
  • Huskur

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008519

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