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Folk and Ethnomedicine Practices

Traditional remedies and practices tied to a specific culture, community or folk tradition, along with the broader modern-era alternative-medicine practices and products that share their unsystematized, non-mechanism-specific character, rather than a named manipulative technique, a water cure, an energy claim, a compounded pharmacological remedy or a cutting operation. This includes culturally specific folk remedies and materials (African black soap, aguamiel, crocodile oil, skunk oil, tamagozake, chicken-blood therapy, alternative uses for placenta, medical cannibalism, urine therapy, hagiotherapy, royal touch, faith healing), regional traditional medical systems (Hidaklon, Maibaron), everyday folk practices and sayings (feed a cold starve a fever, enema, tobacco smoke enema, ear candling, eye shaving, moxibustion), and broader modern alternative-medicine practices and products with no single technique-based home elsewhere in this subcategory (naturopathy, aromatherapy, apitherapy, gemmotherapy, biomesotherapy, colloidal silver, detoxification (alternative medicine), ozone therapy, See Clearly Method). A practice whose defining technique is direct manual manipulation, water immersion, a claimed energy field, or a discrete cutting operation is grouped instead under this atlas's other historical-practice groups even when it also carries a folk or cultural origin.

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complementary-traditional 1
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non-invasive 1
Folk and Ethnomedicine Practices
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1. Ethnomedicine (Wikipedia)
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Ethnomedicine is a study or comparison of the traditional medicine based on bioactive compounds in plants and animals and practiced by various ethnic groups, especially those with little access to western medicines, e.g., indigenous peoples.
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