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Descriptor English:
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Medicine, Traditional
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Medicina Tradicional
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Medicina Tradicional
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Synonyms English:
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Ethnomedicine
Folk Medicine
Folk Remedies
Folk Remedy
Home Remedies
Home Remedy
Indigenous Medicine
Medicine, Folk
Medicine, Indigenous
Medicine, Primitive
Primitive Medicine
Remedies, Folk
Remedies, Home
Remedy, Folk
Remedy, Home
Traditional Medicine
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Tree Number:
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E02.190.488
I01.076.201.450.654
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Definition English:
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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. |
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Indexing Annotation English:
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includes medicine among aborigines & other primitive cultures & folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term; DF: MED TRADITIONAL
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See Related English:
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Ethnobotany
Ethnopharmacology
Health Services, Indigenous
Materia Medica
Pharmacognosy
Plants, Medicinal
Shamanism
Traditional Pulse Diagnosis
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History Note English:
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81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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8686
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Unique Identifier:
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D008519
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DeCS
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