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Traditional and Historical Medicine Practitioners

Healers whose practice sits outside, or predates, the modern clinical specialties named elsewhere in this tree, following ISCO-08 Minor Group 223, Traditional and Complementary Medicine Professionals, extended to the premodern physicians whose recorded role blends medicine with alchemy, herbalism, natural history, theology or scholarship. Belongs here: a traditional healer, a physician also noted as an alchemist, botanist, herbalist, naturalist or theologian, and a scholar and translator of medical texts. Does not belong here: a physician whose SubLabel names a modern clinical or laboratory specialty as the primary role, grouped under that specialty's own heading instead.

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Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Unani and other indigenous systems 1
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1. Traditional Medicine (Wikipedia)
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Traditional medicine (also known as Indigenous medicine or folk medicine) refers to the knowledge, skills, and practices rooted in the cultural beliefs of various societies, especially Indigenous groups, used with the intent of treating illness and maintaining health.
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