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Folk Belief and Folk Medicine - An overview of folk medicine and its types, elements, and origins.
Folk Medicine - Referenced article by a home healthcare nurse from West Virginia about the history of folk medicine and practices still in use.
Medicine Women - Writer Carolina Carlessi discusses growing up in Peru's culture of folk medicine and faith healing and how it affected her perception of modern medicine.
Lithuanian Folk Medicine - Includes sections describing the concept of health and illness, determination of illness, doctors and cures.
Folk Medicine - Bordering the Future - Brief commentary on folk healing in the Texas border regions.
Some Common Medicinal and Poisonous Plants Used in Ethiopian Folk Medicine - Treatise by Amare Getahun, professor at Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia. Includes introduction to Ethiopian medical lore, glossary and description of plants and their uses.
Ozarkian and Haitian Folk Medicine - Monograph with references describing the similarities between folkloric beliefs in Haiti and mid-western America.
Russian Folk Medicine - Traditional treatments for ailments ranging from cancer to upset stomach.
Folk Medicine in Hispanics in the Southwestern United States - Treatise prepared by a Baylor College of Medicine assistant professor outlining some Hispanic folkloric beliefs and the importance of considering such beliefs during standard medical treatment.
Folk Medicine, Amish and Swiss-Pennsylvania German - Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia article describing 18th and 19th century remedies and the proliferation of folk healing among Amish and Mennonite cultures.

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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.