medicine ethnomedicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomedicine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1371416 The study or comparison of the traditional medicine based on bioactive compounds in plants and animals and practiced by various ethnic groups, often members of various Indigenous peoples. Ethnomedical research is interdisciplinary; in its study of traditional medicines, it applies the methods of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. Often, the medicine traditions it studies are preserved only by oral tradition. Scientific ethnomedical studies constitute either anthropological research or drug discovery research. 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".