Vol. 1, Issue 2, Part B (2015)

Abstract
Folk medicine is the mixture of traditional healing practices and beliefs that involve herbal medicine, spirituality and manual therapies or exercises in order to diagnose, treat or prevent an ailment or illness. Folk Medicine may also be referred to as alternative medicine, holistic medicine and Eastern Medicine (named after its historic practice in the countries of Asia, particularly China). Western medicine also referred to as allopathic medicine, scientific medicine or biomedicine, uses healing practices based on scientific evidence and research. Today, this is referred to as conventional medicine. This review paper includes various homemade remedies and folk lore which are still used to cure various disease and disorder.