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| Title: | Traditional medicine of the Nicobarese |
| Authors: | Verma, Chitralekha
Bhatia, Shashi
Srivastava, Shuchi |
| Keywords: | Traditional medicine
Ethnomedicine
Nicobarese
Car Nicobar Island |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P1/00, A61P1/06, A61P1/10, A61P1/16, A61P13/00, A61P15/00, A61P19/00, A61P29/00, A61P31/00, A61P39/02 |
| Abstract: | Medical beliefs and practices play an important role in every
culture. All cultures have a set of ideas for defining and treating disease and
ways of prescribing cures. The paper deals with the traditional system of
medicine prevalent among the Nicobarese
of Car Nicobar Island. The aim of the study was to cover all the
aspects related to their traditional system which includes their traditional
beliefs and practices regarding health and sickness, home remedies,
magico-religious treatment and plant folk medicine. Although Tsunami has caused
total destruction of the medical infrastructure, tremendous loss to the
villages many of which are almost washed away, but this vast knowledge of
ethnomedicine certainly is a most valuable thing to treasure before it gets
lost with the passage of time. |
| Page(s): | 779-785 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(4) [October 2010]
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