Home›Traditional and Historical Medicine Practitioners›All Traditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBrowse ByAll Traditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersReference and ClassificationVerifiedHealers 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.FactsAll Traditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonTradition or RegionWell-attestedAyurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Unani and other indigenous systems 1All Traditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersFilter Results208 entriesHealing TraditionAllAfrican Traditional Healers (2)Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine (14)Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders (31)Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture (10)Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders (28)Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders (5)Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders (10)Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine (9)Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine (4)Specialist InAllCardiology (1)Epidemiology (1)Family Medicine (1)Immunology (1)Infectious Disease (1)Pediatrics (1)Preventive Medicine (1)Era (Birth Year)All865 (1)1484 (1)1493 (1)1741 (1)1749 (1)1769 (1)1787 (1)1810 (1)1812 (1)1822 (1)1834 (1)1835 (1)1840 (1)1852 (1)1859 (1)1860 (2)1869 (1)1870 (1)1875 (2)1878 (1)1886 (1)1890 (1)1902 (1)1904 (1)1905 (1)1907 (1)1910 (1)1912 (1)1921 (2)1928 (1)1942 (1)1951 (1)1957 (1)1958 (1)Profession/RoleAllAfrican Traditional Healers (2)Ayurveda and South Asian Traditional Medicine (14)Fringe and Alternative Medicine Founders (31)Hydrotherapy and Physical Culture (10)Naturopathy and Nature Cure Founders (28)Osteopathy and Chiropractic Founders (5)Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders (10)Traditional Chinese and East Asian Medicine (9)Unani and Islamic Traditional Medicine (4)NationalityAllAustralia (1)Austria (3)Austrian Empire (2)Brazil (2)British Raj (4)Canada (4)China (1)Estonia (1)France (2)Germany (15)Holy Roman Empire (1)Hungary (1)India (8)Iran (2)Italy (1)Japan (3)Kingdom of Bavaria (1)Kingdom of Great Britain (1)Kingdom of Italy (1)Kingdom of Prussia (2)Mexico (1)Netherlands (1)Nigeria (1)Qing dynasty (1)Russia (3)Russian Empire (1)South Africa (1)Soviet Union (1)Switzerland (6)United Kingdom (7)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1)United States (38)Vietnam (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 100Adolf JustTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAgniveshaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAlbert SchweitzerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAlexander Milton RossTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAlfred VogelTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAl-RaziTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAndrew Taylor StillTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAnn WigmoreTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersArnold EhretTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersArnold RikliTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAtreyaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersAugust EngelhardtTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBalendu PrakashTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBalkrishnaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBenedict LustTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBernarr MacfaddenTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBhau DajiTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBian QueTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBogarTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersBrihaspati Dev TrigunaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersCameron AlborzianTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersCesare MatteiTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersChristoph Wilhelm HufelandTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersChujiro HayashiTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersCredo MutwaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersD. C. JarvisTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDaniel David PalmerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDavid FrawleyTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDavid RugglesTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDeepak ChopraTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDesiré DubounetTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersDevendra TrigunaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdgar CayceTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdmond Bordeaux SzekelyTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdward BachTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEdward JennerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersElsa GindlerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEmanuel FelkeTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersEric FranklinTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersF. Matthias AlexanderTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersFereydoon BatmanghelidjTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersFranz MesmerTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersFrederick FasehunTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersFriedrich Eduard BilzTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersGalina ShatalovaTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersGayelord HauserTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersGeorge Soulié de MorantTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersGeorges LakhovskyTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersGerda AlexanderTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersGladys McGareyTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHải Thượng Lãn ÔngTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHakim Abdul HameedTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHakim Ajmal KhanTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHakim Muhammad Sharif KhanTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHans KalmTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHeinrich LahmannTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHenry LindlahrTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHerbert M. SheltonTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersHulda Regehr ClarkTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersIan DonaldTraditional and Historical Medicine PractitionersIda RolfTraditional and Historical Medicine Practitioners123Next →Sources1. Traditional Medicine (Wikipedia)Wikipedialead paragraphQuote, lead paragraphTraditional 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.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.