ethnomedicinen.
/ˌɛθnəʊˈmɛd(ᵻ)s(ᵻ)n/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˈmɛd(ə)s(ə)n/ Traditional knowledge and practices of healing; the medical knowledge and practices of a particular people; the scientific study of this.
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folk-medicine1898
ethnomedicine1901
traditional medicine1957
1901 Internat. Year Bk. 1900 39 Good work in ethno-botany and ethno-medicine is being conducted by Dr. José Ramirez and Dr. Manuel Urbina.
1955 Econ. Devel. & Cultural Change 4 82 Ethnobotany, ethnopharmacy, and ethnomedicine largely of non-Andean and/or pre-Columbian Indians.
1980 Holistic Health News Sept. 9/2 Planet Medicine is neither a critique of current medicine..nor is it a handbook on tribal ethnomedicine, yet it covers both these territories.
2007 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 1 Nov. 38 Asparagus rhizomes and root is used in ethnomedicine in the treatment of kidney and bladder stones and for those suffering urinary tract infections.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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