Healing Ceremony
A ritual or series of rituals performed to promote healing, typically integrating spiritual, psychological, and physical dimensions. Common in Indigenous medicine, ceremonies may involve the use of drums, songs, dances, and natural elements like fire or water.
Heen Mara
Used by the Vedda people of Sri Lanka, Heen Mara refers to the practice of invoking ancestral spirits through rhythmic drumming and chanting during healing rituals. It often accompanies the use of medicinal roots and bark collected from sacred trees.
Herbal Medicine
The use of plant-based substances for therapeutic purposes. This includes herbs, roots, seeds, leaves, and flowers used to treat or prevent diseases.
Holistic Medicine
An approach that treats the whole person, considering the physical, emotional, spiritual, and environmental factors in healing. Holistic medicine integrates various forms of traditional and modern treatments.
Homeopathy
A system of alternative medicine that uses highly diluted substances to treat illnesses. It is based on the principle of “like cures like,” meaning that substances causing symptoms in healthy people can be used to treat those same symptoms in sick people.
