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traditional medicine

traditional medicine Traditional medicine refers to culturally rooted knowledge, skills, and practices shaped by a community’s beliefs, theories, and experience.

Traditional medicine refers to culturally rooted knowledge, skills, and practices shaped by a community’s beliefs, theories, and experience. It is used to maintain health and to help prevent, identify, improve, or treat physical or mental illness.

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