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DeCS
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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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Indigenous Medicine
Primitive Medicine
Traditional Medicine
Folk Remedy
Home Remedy
Remedies, Folk
Remedies, Home
Remedy, Folk
Remedy, Home
Ethnomedicine
Medicine, Folk
Folk Medicine
Medicine, Indigenous
Medicine, Primitive
Folk Remedies
Home Remedies
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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. |
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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