Traditional healer

Traditional healer

A Traditional healer (pronunciation: trəˈdɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l ˈhiːlər) is a person who provides medical care using herbal, spiritual, or folk methods that are based on the cultural traditions and beliefs of a specific community or society.

Etymology

The term "Traditional healer" is derived from the English words "traditional", meaning "long-established", and "healer", meaning "one who restores health".

Related Terms

• Herbalist: A person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
• Shaman: A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, typically such a person enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.
• Witch doctor: A traditional healer or shaman who is believed to use witchcraft to heal and to combat evil.
• Medicine man: A traditional healer or spiritual leader who serves a community of indigenous people of the Americas.
• Ayurveda: A system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.
• Traditional Chinese Medicine: A style of traditional medicine based on more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice.

See also

• Alternative medicine
• Holistic health
• Homeopathy
• Naturopathy

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Traditional healer
• Wikipedia's article - Traditional healer

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