medicine person
Indigenous spiritual healer
A medicine person is a healer or spiritual leader in Indigenous North American cultures, possessing knowledge of ceremonies, herbal remedies, and supernatural practices.
The term serves as a gender-neutral alternative to medicine man: The tribe's medicine person performed the healing ritual.
Like shaman, the word can flatten distinct traditions across different peoples into a single concept.
- herbalistPractitioner using plant medicines
- mysticSeeker of sacred truth
- healerOne who restores health
- folk healerTraditional community medicine practitioner
- root doctorFolk magic healer
ritualist · ethnobotanist · kahuna · shaman · naturopath · apothecary · bone setter · curandero · acupuncturist · diviner · spiritual guide · elder · firekeeper · sacred ceremony · sweat lodge · vision quest · homeopath · aromatherapist
medicine personMD
Physician's degree letters
surgeon · medical doctor · specialist · general practitioner · clinical researcher
medicine personsorcerer
Wielder of arcane power
witch · brujo · evil spirit · black magician
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