pseudomedicine traditional medicine http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083164 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008519 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/773412008 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C180905 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Traditional_medicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine https://homosaurus.org/terms/traditionalMedicine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q771035 GR880 GN477-GN477.7 Indigenous medicine The World Health Organization (WHO) notes that "inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects" and that "further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety" of such practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems. As a result, the WHO has implemented a nine-year strategy to "support Member States in developing proactive policies and implementing action plans that will strengthen the role traditional medicine plays in keeping populations healthy." The sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness. When "traditional medicine" when referring to untested or untestable practices considered medical in nature (because such methods are, by definition, pseudoscientific). When medical practices are tested and known to have medical benefits, use "ethnomedicine". folk medicine