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Health personnel using systems of medicine based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation, including mystical and magical rituals (SPIRITUAL THERAPIES); TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; PHYTOTHERAPY; HERBAL MEDICINE; and other treatments which may not be explained by modern medicine.
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62 entry terms
- Traditional Healers
- Traditional Health Practitioners
- Healer, Traditional
- Healers, Traditional
- Health Practitioner, Traditional
- Health Practitioners, Traditional
- Medicine Practitioner, Traditional
- Medicine Practitioners, Traditional
- Practitioner, Traditional Health
- Practitioner, Traditional Medicine
- Practitioners, Traditional Health
- Practitioners, Traditional Medicine
- Traditional Healer
- Traditional Health Practitioner
- Traditional Medicine Practitioner
- African Witch Doctor
- Alternative Medicine Practitioners
- CAM Practitioners
- Complementary Health Practitioners
- Complementary Medicine Practitioners
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners
- Ethnobotanists
- Herbalists
- Indigenous Medicine Practitioners
- Medicine Men
- Phytotherapists
- Shaman
- Shamans
- Witch Doctor, African
- African Witch Doctors
- Alternative Medicine Practitioner
- CAM Practitioner
- Complementary Health Practitioner
- Complementary Medicine Practitioner
- Doctor, African Witch
- Doctors, African Witch
- Ethnobotanist
- Health Practitioner, Complementary
- Health Practitioners, Complementary
- Herbalist
- Indigenous Medicine Practitioner
- Medicine Mens
- Medicine Practitioner, Alternative
- Medicine Practitioner, Complementary
- Medicine Practitioner, Indigenous
- Medicine Practitioners, Alternative
- Medicine Practitioners, Complementary
- Medicine Practitioners, Indigenous
- Men, Medicine
- Mens, Medicine
- Phytotherapist
- Practitioner, Alternative Medicine
- Practitioner, CAM
- Practitioner, Complementary Health
- Practitioner, Complementary Medicine
- Practitioner, Indigenous Medicine
- Practitioners, Alternative Medicine
- Practitioners, CAM
- Practitioners, Complementary Health
- Practitioners, Complementary Medicine
- Practitioners, Indigenous Medicine
- Witch Doctors, African
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.
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History Note
2023
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- Medicine, Traditional (1971-2022)
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- National Library of Medicine. Traditional Medicine Practitioners. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000095083. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000095083
- Traditional Medicine Practitioners. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3536384