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alt. 1 (label en uncountable) traditional medical practices developed and used by nonphysicians, typically involving customary homespun techniques and medicinal remedy derived from native plants. 2 (label en countable) A particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices. n. 1 (label en uncountable) traditional medical practices developed and used by nonphysicians, typically involving customary homespun techniques and medicinal remedy derived from native plants. 2 (label en countable) A particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices.
Usage examples of "folk medicine".
Absolutely essential, life-saving information can be acquired from folk medicine and in no other way.
Both Beaton's Guide and my own dim memories of folk medicine held that spider's web was efficacious in dressing wounds.
Our medical staff consists of a veterinarian and Mother Abagail herself, who's forgotten more valid folk medicine than you or I will ever have a chance to learn.
I'd long since used up everything in my original first-aid kit, so falling back on folk medicine was the only thing I could do.
Not black magic, of course, but superstitions, traditions, old songseven some very quaint bits of folk medicine among the old farming families.
She wasn't always an old nag, living in the hills and eking out a miserable existence from sheep and the offerings of the locals for concocting the odd love potion or practicing folk medicine.
The conventional answer of physiology and folk medicine alike is that sleep has a restorative effect.
Garlic has also been used in folk medicine in many parts of the world to treat pinworms, an annoying but generally harmless intestinal parasite.
TM sells folk medicine, runs trading companies, medical clinics and 'research' universities, and has unsuccessfully entered politics.
A lot of what she believes in has the word 'folk' in it somewhere (folk wisdom, folk dance, folk song, folk medicine) as if 'folk' were other than the mundane people she sees every day.