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folk medicine

the treatment of disease as practiced traditionally among the common people, involving esp. the use of herbs and other natural substances

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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