folk medicine

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He is a famous practitioner of folk medicine.
他是一个著名的民间药物医生。
Extracts from the willow tree have been used for pain relief in folk medicine since the time of the ancient Greeks.
从古希腊开始，在民间医药中，人们就用柳树的萃取物缓解疼痛。
This remedy is rooted in two very different traditions: New England folk medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
这种疗法起源于两个非常不同的传统：新英格兰民间医学和传统的中医。

This infiltration of folk medicine into the modern world has reached all levels of medicine and academia.
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traditional medicine that is based especially on the use of plants instead of modern scientific principles

the traditional art of medicine as practised among rustic communities and primitive peoples, consisting typically of the use of herbal remedies, fruits and vegetables thought to have healing power, etc