traditional medicine

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006449",
  "term": "traditional medicine",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "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.",
  "synonyms": [
    "ethnomedicine",
    "ethnopharmacology",
    "folk medicine",
    "folk remedies",
    "home remedies",
    "indigenous medicine",
    "primitive medicine"
  ],
  "subject": "Animals, Livestock, One Health",
  "see_also": [
    "ethnobiology",
    "medicine",
    "medicinal plants",
    "pharmacognosy",
    "phytotherapy",
    "medicinal insects",
    "antipyretics",
    "traditions",
    "archaeobotany",
    "medical botany",
    "herbal medicines",
    "indigenous knowledge",
    "Ayurvedic medicine",
    "Oriental traditional medicine"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2012",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "medicina tradicional"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/traditional-medicine/"
}