Traditional medicine of Central Asia and Kazakhstan
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In the folk medicine of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, which is part of the Central Asia region, empirical, religious, mystical and domestic forms of healing has historically formed and preserved to our time. They differ from each other by views on the origin of diseases and treatment methods. This is described in the proposed book compiled according to written sources of the XIX-XX centuries, as well as on the materials of personal observations of the author. Particular attention is paid to the use of emergics of natural drugs. Treatments are considered through legal and forbidden magic practiced by caster, shamans and healers. It tells about the popular tradition of pilgrimage to holy places for cure. At the end of the book - five applications. In one of them is the translation of ancient recommendations for the treatment of diseases. Four others are unique information about folk medicine, separately living ethnic groups collected in the first half of the last century
Author:
Author:Ogudin Valentin Leonidovich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Medical Books
- Category:Alternative medicine & Homeopathy
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907432-01-7
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