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- DictionaryFolk med·i·cine
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- 1. treatment of disease or injury based on tradition, especially on oral tradition, rather than on modern scientific practice, and often utilizing indigenous plants as remedies: "garlic has been used in folk medicine for thousands of years"
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Mar 7, 2018 · Folklorists Bonnie Blair O’Connor and David Hufford 1 define it as “What exists alongside and apart from what is considered to be mainstream medicine” (2001, 13), which is, perhaps, still the most useful definition of a broad topic. 2 Part of what makes something folk medicine is the transmission of the information and the status of that ...
Defining Folk Medicine. What makes some medicine “folk” is not the particular content of the system of knowledge and practice, but the mode of transmission together with the status of the system by comparison with whatever other medical system is rec-ognized as “official” in the local context (Yoder 1972; Press 1978).
May 23, 2018 · Illnesses whose etiologies are not recognized by Western medical practice are known as folk illnesses. Folk illnesses are shaped by the cultural and ethnic groups from which they emerge.
Folk medicine is the mixture of traditional healing practices and beliefs that involve herbal medicine, spirituality and manual therapies or exercises in order to diagnose, treat or prevent an ailment or illness.[1]
FOLK MEDICINE definition: 1. traditional medicine that is based especially on the use of plants instead of modern scientific…. Learn more.
A relatively modern term, folk medicine has come to mean the care of the sick by unlicensed healers, including those who practice herbal and magical medicine.
6 days ago · Remedies, usually for common ailments, usually comprising herbs or substances plentifully available that have been believed and/or found by experience to be effective treatment for people with common symptoms such as “rheumaticky” pains, shortness of breath, and menstrual irregularities.
