Used in the West for sets of health beliefs and practices that developed within the culture of a particular ethnic or geographic group of people, distinct from modern Western medicine; commonly includes herbal and homeopathic remedies, religious or spiritual ritual, and an holistic approach to patients.
AAT
3000259515
ethnic medicine
ethnomedicine
folk medicine
folk-medicine
healing, traditional
indigenous medicine
medicine, ethnic
medicine, folk
medicine, indigenous
medicine, traditional
traditional healing
13yrs ago
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