folk medicine

音標發(fā)音

He is a famous practitioner of folk medicine.
他是一個著名的民間藥物醫(yī)生。
Extracts from the willow tree have been used for pain relief in folk medicine since the time of the ancient Greeks.
從古希臘開始，在民間醫(yī)藥中，人們就用柳樹的萃取物緩解疼痛。
This remedy is rooted in two very different traditions: New England folk medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
這種療法起源于兩個非常不同的傳統(tǒng)：新英格蘭民間醫(yī)學和傳統(tǒng)的中醫(yī)。

This infiltration of folk medicine into the modern world has reached all levels of medicine and academia.
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As Peter Lipson explained recently in his Forbes column, naturopaths are little more than fake doctors, whose practices are a modern-day version of folk medicine.
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Many of the unscientific folk medicine beliefs, the ones that failed us for centuries, are making a comeback, one that is supported by a multi-billion dollar supplement industry among others.
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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