Usually means: Traditional healing practices using local resources.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word folk medicine:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. folk medicine: Merriam-Webster
  2. folk medicine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. folk medicine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. folk medicine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. folk-medicine: Wordnik
  6. folk medicine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. folk-medicine, folk medicine: Wiktionary
  8. folk medicine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. folk medicine: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. folk medicine: Dictionary.com
  11. Folk medicine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. folk medicine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk medicine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. folk medicine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. folk medicine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  5. folk medicine: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (folk medicine)

noun:  (uncountable) Traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians, typically involving customary homespun techniques and medicinal remedies derived from native plants.
noun:  (countable) A particular medicinal remedy used in such traditional medical practices.

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