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MeSH Heading: Medicine, Traditional
Tree Number(s): E02.190.488; I01.076.201.450.654
Unique ID: D008519
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008519
Annotation: includes medicine among aborigines and other primitive cultures and folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term
Scope Note: 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.
Entry Version: MED TRADITIONAL
Entry Term(s): Ethnomedicine; Folk Medicine; Folk Remedies; Home Remedies; Indigenous Medicine; Medicine, Folk; Medicine, Indigenous; Medicine, Primitive; Primitive Medicine; Traditional Healing; Traditional Medicine
See Also: Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacology; Health Services, Indigenous; Materia Medica; Pharmacognosy; Plants, Medicinal; Shamanism; Traditional Medicine Practitioners; Traditional Pulse Diagnosis
Public MeSH Note: 81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77
Online Note: use MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL to search MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1966-80, FOLK MEDICINE 1966-77, & FOLKLORE 1968-77
History Note: 81; was MEDICINE, PRIMITIVE 1963-80; FOLK MEDICINE was see under FOLKLORE 1968-77
Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 2024/08/09
Revision Date: 2024/04/29

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Medicine, Traditional MeSH Descriptor Data 2025