Traditional medicine in Russia
AUTHORS : Karpeev A.A.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Federal Clinical and Experimental Scientific Center for Traditional Methods
diagnostics and treatment of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow
YEAR : 2003
Traditional medicine has existed and exists in every society throughout the history of mankind, being intimately connected with the national (sometimes – with
the group) culture. For many centuries, medical assistance to the population in Russia was
almost everywhere provided by folk methods and means. Among them, herbal medicine, bone-setting, ore throwing (bloodletting) prevailed, Russian baths,
various types of massage were widely used for health-improving and medicinal purposes, People who used irrational (spiritual) methods in their practice, which
are now considered by most researchers, have always played a noticeable role in folk medicine. as energy-informative, A feature of Russian folk medicine, due to its
vast territory and multinationality, is the combination of a number of folk healing systems. Throughout the country, the methods and means mentioned above were
used, in Kalmykia, Buryatia, Tuva, Tibetan medicine became widespread,
