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Descriptor English: Medicine, African Traditional
Descriptor Spanish: Medicinas Tradicionales Africanas
Descriptor medicinas tradicionales africanas
Entry term(s) medicina africana tradicional
medicina tradicional africana
Scope note: Sistema holístico de atención sanitaria tradicional que se organiza en tres niveles de especialidad: la adivinación, el espiritismo y la herboristería. Los curanderos tradicionales (sacerdotisas, sumos sacerdotes, brujos, adivinos, comadronas, videntes o espiritistas y herboristas) utilizan hierbas, minerales, partes de animales, conjuros y otros métodos basados en las culturas y creencias de sus pueblos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicinas Tradicionais Africanas
Descriptor French: Médecine traditionnelle africaine
Entry term(s): African Medicine
African Medicine, Traditional
African Traditional Medicine
Medicine, African
Medicine, Traditional African
Traditional African Medicine
Traditional Medicine, African
Tree number(s): E02.190.488.505
E02.190.901.433
I01.076.201.450.654.505
MT1.158
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016488
Scope note: A traditional holistic health care system that is organized into three levels of specialization: divination, spiritualism, and herbalism. Traditional healers (priestesses, high priests, shamans, diviners, midwives, seers or spiritualists, and herbalists) use herbs, minerals, animal parts, spells, and other methods based on the cultures and beliefs of their people.
Annotation: IM; not medicine in Africa ( = MEDICINE + AFRICA); apply policy of Manual 32.13 to this term; apply TN J/29-36 on Chinese plants to indexing of African plants where applicable; specify geog; DF: MED AFRICAN TRADITIONAL
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
EC economics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Medicine, Traditional (1966-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Entry Version: MED AFRICAN TRADITIONAL
DeCS ID: 29990
Unique ID: D016488
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/07/03
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Medicine, African Traditional - Preferred
Concept UI M0025170
Scope note A traditional holistic health care system that is organized into three levels of specialization: divination, spiritualism, and herbalism. Traditional healers (priestesses, high priests, shamans, diviners, midwives, seers or spiritualists, and herbalists) use herbs, minerals, animal parts, spells, and other methods based on the cultures and beliefs of their people.
Preferred term Medicine, African Traditional
Entry term(s) African Medicine, Traditional
African Traditional Medicine
Medicine, Traditional African
Traditional African Medicine
Traditional Medicine, African
Medicine, African - Broader
Concept UI M0025171
Preferred term Medicine, African
Entry term(s) African Medicine



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