Sentences with phrase «for traditional healers»

Ngangka ri is the Pitjantjatjara word for traditional healers.

A spokesman for the Traditional Healers Association of South Africa said that the sangomas feared contracting AIDS through their frequent treatment of patients by cutting skin (to release evil) and rubbing powders into the wounds.

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It's not unusual for the most noted of traditional healers in the Pacific Northwest to support themselves as seasonal fishermen and loggers.

Listen to audio clips collected for Nicole's thesis, A Long Line of Healers: Tracking the Evolution of Birthing Practices Among Women of African Descent and its Connection to the History of Traditional Midwifery in the American South.

In 1991, she founded the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), the first international non-profit to address the needs of black midwives, and increase the number of midwives, doulas and healers of color, to empower families to reduce infant and maternal mortality.

Basic Needs - Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization working in the area of mental health has targeted 800 traditional healers and prayer camp managers across the country for training on the best practices in managing mental illness.

He lobbied for more CHPS compounds for under - served communities where traditional healers served as caregivers.

Having lived and studied with traditional Mayan healers in Belize for nearly 25 years, Rosita became quite familiar with this miraculous remedy for the womb.

Turns out, black cumin seeds and oil are used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern and Asian healers for a broad array of diseases, including some immune and inflammatory disorders, says Hwyda A. Arafat, MD, PhD, associate professor, departments of surgery and pathology, anatomy and cell biology at Jefferson Medical College.

Highly prized for millennia by herbalists and traditional healers in Asia, the cordyceps mushroom is an extremely unusual fungus with a reputation as a profoundly effective adaptogenic herb that is especially useful as a rejuvenative and for building strength and endurance in those who consume it.

Her constant thirst for knowledge in the pursuit of finding answers to her patient's problems has taken her around the world, learning from traditional healers and native cultures from such diverse places as Australia, India, Mexico, Peru, Africa, and Sri Lanka; as well as from the best of the innovative thinkers and scientists our country has to offer.

Known primarily for their use in cooking, tart cherries have also long been used by traditional healers as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments and diseases.

In that region, traditional healers have long used pumpkin as a treatment for common skin conditions.

Capsaicin - rich peppers have a long history of use in Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and modern - day healers often advise capsaicin for digestive and circulatory problems.

P.S. I JUST talked to an amazing shamanic energy healer who also confirmed to me by her traditional methods that I have an overwhelming and out of control amount of candida in my system, and that grain - free is the absolute best way for me to be right now.

Many people in Ghana go to conventional medical clinics for care, but they also go to traditional healers and priests.

This had been a primary pretext for the medieval purges of alleged witches and familiars, which actually had the net effect of purging whole regions of traditional healers, and of extirpating one of the first lines of community defense against disease - carrying rodents.

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Nat explains importance of plants for medicine to American undergraduate students in the presence of a traditional healer.

From a review of the «Haudenosaunee Code of Behaviour for Traditional Medicine Healers» and other evidence, Judge Edward found that «traditional medicine continues to be practised on Six Nations as it was prior to European contact and, in this court's view, there is no question it forms an integral part of who the Six Nations Traditional Medicine Healers» and other evidence, Judge Edward found that «traditional medicine continues to be practised on Six Nations as it was prior to European contact and, in this court's view, there is no question it forms an integral part of who the Six Nations traditional medicine continues to be practised on Six Nations as it was prior to European contact and, in this court's view, there is no question it forms an integral part of who the Six Nations are.»

he Ngangkari told the conference their role as traditional healers for 28 communities in the remote Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjar (NPY) lands was strong.

The Ngangkari told the conference their role as traditional healers for 28 communities in the remote Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjar (NPY) lands was strong.