ritual healing
Spiritual restoration practice
Ritual healing is the use of symbolic ceremonies, prayers, or traditional practices to treat illness or restore well-being.
The approach assumes that health involves spiritual or social dimensions beyond the physical body.
Examples range from Indigenous healing ceremonies to faith healing services: The shaman performed ritual healing to drive out the sickness.
The term appears in anthropology and alternative medicine contexts.
- folk medicineTraditional healing practices
- laying on of handsRitual healing through touch
- medicine manTraditional indigenous healer
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- spirit guidesNonphysical protective entities
invocations · prayer · ancestor veneration · curandero · herbal remedies · sweat lodge · vision quest · anointing · exorcism · trance · drum circle · spirit possession · spiritual cleansing · traditional healers · blessings · purification rites · offerings · meditation
- faith healingfaith healers, faith healer, laying on of hands, miracle cure, miracle cures
- folk medicinefolk medicine, herbalism, herbal remedies, folk healer, herbal medicine
- tribal healingmedicine man, medicine woman, traditional healers, healer, curandero
- Norse healingherbal remedies, healers, herbalists, cunning folk, poultices
- folk remedieshome remedy, herbal remedy, tonic, salve, balm
- cultural psychologycultural norms, cultural values, cultural influences, cultural attitudes, enculturation
ritual healingclinical treatment
Healthcare for a condition
evidence-based medicine · surgery · hospital care · emergency medicine · medical intervention
ritual healingcursing
Using profane language
hexing · black magic · sorcery · curse · jinxing