A substance that is used to treat diseases

Find out what kind of illness someone has by examining them

suggest the medicine a sick person should take

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

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

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

Choose the incorrect answer: Indigenous medicine

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

Today, many people use both Western and traditional medicine.

A person who practices indigenous medicine

A person who practices indigenous medicine

Healers who communicate with the ancestors to diagnose problems

Traditional medicine

Healers understand that illness affects the following:

What is very important in the practice of traditional healing?

The spirits of the ancestors are seen as

Holistic healers must

Healers who communicate with the ancestors to diagnose problems and often prescribe medicine for different diseases

Born with a special gift as it is believed that they are called by their ancestors to help people.

Healers with a deep knowledge of medicine contained in plants and mix different herbs and plants to cure different diseases.

A person learning to become a sangoma