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traditional medicine

medicine based on traditional beliefs
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Summary

traditional medicine is a system of medicine[1]. It draws 4,018 Wikipedia views per month (system of medicine category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: medicine[3], alternative medicine[4]
  • Part of: traditional, complementary and integrative medicine[5]
  • Commons category: Traditional medicine[6]
  • Has part(s): Ayurveda[7], Traditional Chinese medicine[8], unani[9], Iranian traditional medicine[10], traditional Korean medicine[11], Kampo[12], Lā‘au lapa‘au[13], Georgian folk medicine[14], Segnature[15], Bush medicine[16], Traditional Alaska Native medicine[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Traditional medicine[18], Q9562266[19]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[23]
  • Topic has template: Template:Traditional medicine[24]
  • Practiced by: healer[25]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]

Why It Matters

traditional medicine has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

medicine

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → folkemedisin
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ SML ID folkemedisin deprecated (now SNL folkemedisin), SNL ID folkemedisin from Store medisinske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests for permiss"
  2. 5d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 73
    Wikipedia languages → ['am', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'da',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||th, id */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  3. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → traditional-medicine
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: traditional-medicine, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289971933|traditional medicine (#289971933)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/79"
  4. 12w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 6217
    Svkkl authority id → 0297812-tradicni-medicina, h0001018-lidove-lecitelstvi
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 6217, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167478503|FOLK-MEDICINE (#167478503)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encycloped"
  5. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0297812-tradicni-medicina, h0001018-lidove-lecitelstvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0297812-tradicni-medicina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  6. 19w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-06-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, unani +8
    Practiced by → healer
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ The encyclopedia of oklahoma history and culture id: FO009"
  7. 19w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-06-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, unani +8
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Has part(s): Ayurveda, import w/ [[Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd|🧙 Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata]]"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → medicine, alternative medicine
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 394, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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