Medicine (definition)

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Definition: 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.

includes medicine among aborigines & other primitive cultures & folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term; DF: MED TRADITIONAL
See Also Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacology; Health Services, Indigenous; Materia Medica; Pharmacognosy; Plants, Medicinal; Shamanism
Examples Medicine, African Traditional; Medicine, Arabic; Medicine, Ayurvedic; Medicine, East Asian Traditional; Shamanism

Other names Medicine, Primitive; Medicine, Indigenous; Medicine, Folk; Home Remedies; Folk Remedies; Folk Medicine; Ethnomedicine; Remedy, Home; Remedy, Folk; Remedies, Home; Remedies, Folk; Home Remedy; Traditional Medicine; Primitive Medicine; Indigenous Medicine; Folk Remedy

Substance	CAS Registry & name	Categories	Source
hydroxyachillin	10180-88-8	Lactones Sesquiterpenes Medicine, Traditional.	Planta Med 1994 Jun;60(3):228-31
stimuliv	0	*Materia Medica Medicine, Traditional.	Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 1992 Oct-Dec;34(4):175-83

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Medicine, Traditional