medicine, traditional

Preferred Label : medicine, traditional;

MeSH 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.;

MeSH synonym : traditional medicine;

MeSH hyponym : medicine, folk; medicine, primitive; ethnomedicine; folk remedies; home remedies; medicine, indigenous; Home Remedy; Remedies, Home; Remedy, Home; Primitive Medicine; Folk Medicine; Indigenous Medicine; Folk Remedy; Remedies, Folk; Remedy, Folk;

MeSH annotation : includes medicine among aborigines & other primitive cultures & folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term; DF: MED TRADITIONAL; includes medicine among aborigines and other primitive cultures and folk medicine among non-primitive cultures; specify geographical term;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional medicine;

Details

Origin ID

D008519;

UMLS CUI

C0025131;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Indexing information
- hydroxyachillin [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- stimuliv [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
Record concept(s)
- ethnomedicine [MeSH concept]
- folk remedies [MeSH concept]
- home remedies [MeSH concept]
- medicine, folk [MeSH concept]
- medicine, indigenous [MeSH concept]
- medicine, primitive [MeSH concept]
- medicine, traditional [MeSH concept]
See also
- Traditional Medicine Practitioners [MeSH Descriptor]
- Traditional Pulse Diagnosis [MeSH Descriptor]
- ethnobotany [MeSH Descriptor]
- ethnopharmacology [MeSH Descriptor]
- health services, indigenous [MeSH Descriptor]
- materia medica [MeSH Descriptor]
- nostrums [MeSH Descriptor]
- pharmacognosy [MeSH Descriptor]
- plants, medicinal [MeSH Descriptor]
- shamanism [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- ethnology [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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