curers
People who heal
Curers are people who cure things—whether preserving food through salting, smoking, or drying, or treating illness.
The term appears most often in food production: The curers hung the hams in the smokehouse for six months.
In older usage, curers might be healers or those claiming to remedy ailments.
Those who treat ailments
- shamansSpiritual healers and intermediaries
- herbalistsPlant medicine practitioners
- medicine menTraditional indigenous healers
- faith healersThose claiming supernatural cures
practitioners · therapists · naturopaths · homeopaths · acupuncturists · ayurvedic · chiropractors · osteopaths
Applying sodium chloride
- smokingInhaling burning tobacco
- briningSaltwater soaking for meat
- dryingMoisture removal process
- preservingProtecting from deterioration
bacon · ham · prosciutto · jerky · salami · pancetta · corning · charcuterie
healers
Those who treat ailments
- shamansSpiritual healers and intermediaries
- herbalistsPlant medicine practitioners
- medicine menTraditional indigenous healers
faith healers · practitioners · therapists · naturopaths · homeopaths · acupuncturists · ayurvedic · chiropractors · osteopaths · reiki
salting
Applying sodium chloride
preserving · bacon · ham · prosciutto · jerky · salami · pancetta · corning · charcuterie · butcher
leather
Tanned animal skin
skins · preservation · rawhide · taxidermy · parchment · vellum · tannery · bating · liming
curersinjurers
Those who wound others
killers · destroyers · poisoners · afflicters · infectors
- cured meatSalt-preserved animal protein
- cured fishSalt-preserved aquatic protein
- miracle curesFraudulent health claims
- hangover cureTreatment for alcohol aftereffects
- The CureBritish post-punk band
- cured porkSalt-preserved pig meat