traditional medicine

English

Noun

traditional medicine (countable and uncountable, plural traditional medicines)

2. A system of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, especially one that is associated with a single culture.

   Hypernyms: medicine (broad sense referring to practice), medicine (broad sense referring to field of study)

   Hyponym: traditional Chinese medicine

   Holonyms: complementary medicine, integrative medicine, alternative medicine

   Coordinate term: scientific medicine

   Near-synonyms: folk medicine (often synonymous, sometimes specific to laypersons), indigenous medicine (almost synonymous but is not applied to the folk medicine of non-Indigenous groups)

3. A specific medicine or remedy in this system.

Related terms

• herbal medicine (has both traditional and nontraditional forms)

Translations

System of traditional medicine

• German: Volksmedizin (de) f
• Polish: medycyna ludowa f

Drug used in traditional medicine

• Polish: zioło (pl) n
• Swahili: dawa ya kienyeji

References

• Traditional medicine. World Health Organization. [1]