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Traditional healing system faces challenges of being lost and slid into oblivion
What is traditional healing?
- Traditional healing refers to the health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs that incorporate healing and wellness.
- These practices include using ceremonies, plant, animal or mineral-based medicines, energetic therapies and physical or hands-on techniques.
- Traditional healing practice is holistic and aims at the overall well-being of the person.
- It takes the body, self, and society within a framework of dynamic equilibrium.
- The holistic approach takes into consideration the values, passions, beliefs, social interactions, and spiritual orientation of a person.
- A traditional healer can be defined as a person without formal medical training but is considered (by the local tribal community) competent to provide healthcare using animal, plant and mineral substances.
- They use techniques based on their social, cultural and religious background as well as the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs prevalent in the community regarding disease and disability.
- Members of the Bonda tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, rely heavily on traditional healers or dissahris for treating general and minor ailments in this village.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB
