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- Folk medicine - Folk medicine refers generally to healing practices traditionally used for alleviating illness and injury, or to aid in childbirth. It is a category of informal knowledge distinct from "scientific medicine", as well as more formal and systematic, but unscientific, medical practices such as Ayurveda.
- Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time musical group based in Nashville, Tennessee. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs.
- Lauri Honko - A disciple of Martti Haavio whose thesis, Krankheitsprojektile (1959) developed a typology for the analysis of ethnographic data in folk medicine. He put the Finnish folk tradition explanation of illness and healing into global perspective and found distinct features and differences in geographical regions.
- Botánica - A botánica (often written botanica and less commonly known as a hierberia or botica) is a retail store which sells folk medicine, religious candles and statuary, amulets, and other products regarded as magical or as alternative medicine. They also carry oils, incense, perfumes, scented sprays (many of which are thought to have special properties) and various brand name health care products.
- Herbalism - Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medicinal botany(a neologism coined by Dr.