0 a person who has the power to cure ill people without using ordinary medicines: --
a spiritual healer
1 a person or thing that heals: --
Time is a great healer.
The state, whether colonial or post-colonial, could not realistically drive folk healers out of existence without providing many more physicians to take their place.
A large number of respondents (62%) were forced to use the services of government health providers in the absence of the availability of traditional healers.
How is their care integrated with care by others (quacks, traditional healers, sub-specialists)?
Thus, they take the properly modernist stance: these healers are antithetical to modernity and, because this is a modern country, they must not persist.
Physicians had few services and products to sell, they competed with alternative healers, and most people had little income to pay for medicine.
The two collections of essays present the findings of research into midwives, folk healers, matchmakers, witches and women's religious communities.
Numerous drugs have been discovered through research on medicinal plants used by local healers.
The influence attained by folk healers was double-edged.
