Ethnomedicine

Ethnomedicine is the study of how different cultures around the world use plants, herbs, animals, and other natural items to try to stay healthy and heal illnesses. An ethnomedicine expert studies the different ways people around the world use plants and other natural items to try to cure illnesses and manage medicine. An ethnomedicine doctor might study traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine (traditional Indian medicine), or may work with traditional healers and medicine people from different cultures to learn more about the different ways of healing.