Medicine+Men

Greg McDonough Period 5/6

__Medicine Men __

Medicine Men:
 * Called the Medicine Person or healer and is a member of a society that has knowledge about the magical and chemical components of various substances, also called medicines. Medicine Men are also skilled in rituals in which they know.




 * 1) The Medicine Men are trained to know certain herbs, roots, and other plants, how to prepare them, and what diseases they can cure.
 * 2) Some Medicine Men go through initiation to gain these powers of "Medicine Man" or they become experts by being an apprentice and learning from the head Medicine Man of the village; some can learn these techniques both ways.
 * 3) These people carry specific medical kits with them. They contain feathers from different types of birds, stones, medicinal plants, or other materials that associate with healing. These items are said to draw out the disease within the patient.
 * 4) In the late 18th century, Medicine Men were called Witch Doctors, who cured and treated for witches and sorcerers, which in tradition, believed they caused the illnesses. Now the term is used pejoratively, or as a negative connotation.
 * 5) Nigeria doesn't have many hospitals or medical clinics, so the Medicine Men take care of the people in the village rather than taken the patients hundres of miles to the nearest hospital.
 * 6) Medicine Men use herbal medicine rather than modern medicine, because herbal medicine, they believe, doesn't have the long term side effects that modern medicine can sometimes have, and treats better in some situations.



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__**Works Cited**__
 * "Medicine Man (anthropology) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." // Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia //. Web. 27 Oct. 2010. . **
 * "MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: [|HEALTHCARE] ." // MOTHERLAND NIGERIA (By Boomie O.) //. Web. 27 Oct. 2010. . **