Indigenous healing in SA

The practice of healing people

• medicine

• diagnose

• prescribe

• indigenous

• holistic

A substance that is used to treat diseases

• medicine

• diagnose

• prescribe

• indigenous

• holistic

Find out what kind of illness someone has by examining them

• medicine

• diagnose

• prescribe

• indigenous

• holistic

suggest the medicine a sick person should take

• medicine

• diagnose

• prescribe

• indigenous

• holistic

having always been in a place, rather than having come from somewhere else

• medicine

• diagnose

• prescribe

• indigenous

• holistic

treating the person as a whole, and not just the physical illness

• medicine

• diagnose

• prescribe

• indigenous

• holistic

Choose the incorrect answer: Western medicine is called 'wester' because...

• indigenous medicine used in SA

• originated in western Europe

• treats diseases of the physical body

• based on science

• studied at universities

Choose the incorrect answer: Indigenous medicine

• practiced for hundred of years in SA

• traditional way of healing

• healers decide what causes the illness

• patients are treated with herbal remedies

• settlers from Europe introduced it

Tick more than one: Name all the people in SA who used indigenous medicine

• hunter-gatherers

• herders

• African farmers

• doctors

Today, many people use both Western and traditional medicine.

• true

• false