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the significance of European folk medicine in the past and present, and what this tells us about its future. Folk medical concep ...
involves placing a hairbrush in the woman’s brassiere while a healer recites the following charm: ‘Good morning [or good evening ...
wound. There are many other examples in European folk medicine, such as the cure of congenital hernia by splitting the trunk of ...
led to excessive heat/cold, moistness/dryness in the body. Cures required the ingestion of foods, liquids or herbs that had hot/ ...
Healing wells, which were often associated with the saints, were key targets of religious reformers in Protestant countries, but ...
Herbalism The use of plants is the most enduring aspect of folk medical practice. Studies of contemporary traditional herbalism ...
Practitioners and their powers Everyone could practise some elements of folk medicine, but certain sections of the population we ...
texts, such as the first printed Polish herbal, Stefan Falimirz’s On Herbs and their Power, published in 1534.^33 Astrology was ...
contained traditional healing charms. Its popularity may have created a certain degree of uniformity in the charming tradition a ...
Numerous small-scale population movements have also taken place within Europe over the centuries. Studying folk medical knowledg ...
communities in London.47,48In France over the last three decades immigrant west and north African cunning-folk or marabouts, pri ...
Adaptation and transformation There has been, and continues to be, a tendency to consider European folk medicine, as well as oth ...
alarming reality, particularly among the younger generations’. The oral repos- itory of folk medicine is not being passed on.6,6 ...
published accounts of the oral medical tradition provide an enduring record that is easily accessible to all. Fieldwork in Eston ...
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3 Aboriginal/traditional medicine in North America: a practical approach for practitioners John K Crellin We still use plants fr ...
herbs. In anchoring this chapter on current issues, information from a Saqamaw (chief) of a Canadian aboriginal reserve is noted ...
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