| Many people still consult native healers, including witch doctors, voodoo practitioners, and herbalists. |
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| He categorized the patterns as engineers, psychics, healers, millionaires, and remote viewers. |
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| They were to help the wounded by soothing the pain until the true healers arrived. |
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| Particularly in Amerindian communities, curanderos function as healers who communicate with nature gods and spirits. |
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| The healers have their bandages and their poultices, their medicine and their skill. |
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| Maya folk medicine includes the ministrations of ritual healers called curanderos and female herbalists who may double as midwives. |
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| For the majority, there remained recourse to the popular healers of folk medicine. |
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| They were the healers, the teachers, and the wise men and women others would turn to in times of trouble. |
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| The healers chose to follow, for they would not abandon their brethren in spite of everything. |
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| She has been meeting with spiritual healers and alternative medicine specialists. |
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| Research has provisionally found the plants, prescribed by traditional healers to their patients, to be effective and non-toxic. |
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| A couple of scotches and you will sleep like a log, and sleep is one of the best healers. |
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| This lineage includes village healers, community midwives, and family herbalists. |
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| Rituals, prayers, and charms are used by folk healers only as additional elements of healing. |
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| Selection bias partly explains why there are so many satisfied customers who go to psychics, tarot card readers, palmists, and faith healers. |
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| Many Swazis respect and rely on traditional medicine and healers in what has remained a highly conservative society. |
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| Additionally, and despite awareness of the shortcomings of faith healers, this group relied on faith healing. |
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| It is also a source of medicines for traditional healers and is used extensively for fencing, rope, firewood and building materials. |
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| Even those who have access to an infirmary or clinic may visit herbalists or other healers. |
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| To perform this work, slave healers selected from among a lengthy menu of strategies. |
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| He may be calling us to be intercessors, evangelists, advocates for the poor, healers of the sick, prophets to the world. |
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| There are over 1,900 dried herbs in the shop, prescribed by inyangas or traditional healers. |
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| He needed men for his army, smiths for his forges, cooks, hunters, healers, servants, woodcutters, stonemasons and more. |
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| The plant is used by the folk healers of tropical West Africa to cure fever, skin ulcerations and wounds. |
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| Like the folk healers of old, Callahan thinks it is his magic that is effecting cures at lightning speed. |
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| Totems of specific clans, healers, or royal dynasties are taboo to certain members of some ethnic groups. |
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| Data clearly indicates that plants collected from healers provide more solid leads toward developing new drugs than random screening. |
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| While your disciples are journalists and blaspheming healers mine are seers and political strategists. |
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| Phony faith healers, psychics, channelers, televangelist miracle workers, etc., are as abundant as ever. |
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| In many rural communities, men and women function equally as shamans and healers. |
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| As healers, we take courses in age-specific competencies and diversity to better prepare us to minister to the people who come to us for care. |
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| Ancient Egyptians, Ayurvedic practitioners and Native American healers used horehound, another highly regarded herbal expectorant, as a cough remedy. |
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| Consider this description of a scholar studying curanderos, native healers who provide Hispanic communities with medical advice, prescriptions, and treatments. |
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| Indigenous and shamanic healers speak about the presence of and use of such tutelary spirits which are often personified and summoned while working with a patient. |
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| I have often heard artists credit their grandparents or parents who were potters or carvers, muralists or weavers, traditional healers, praise singers or storytellers. |
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| Are we all expected to revert to traditional healers for our muti? |
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| Calendula flower preparations work as powerful skin healers. |
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| A two metre long spitting cobra is believed to have been left behind by two Malawian youths who are traditional healers after checking out of the room as they left for Lusaka. |
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| Religious experts vary from formally installed priests and teachers representing the institutionalized religions to self-ordained shamans, healers, and sorcerers. |
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| In the past, the Kyrgyz people relied on shamans as healers. |
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| Some postcolonial states have legally recognized folk healers. |
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| I am referring to the reports of miracles, faith healers, visitations by angelic or demonic beings, ghosts or goblins, or contact with dearly departed friends and relatives. |
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| In Asia monastics were great healers, and incredible people. |
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| Whereas there is plenty of information on empirics, because of the licensing regime, folk healers occupy a very small place in the medical and police archives of the time. |
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| Don Miguel Ruiz, MD, was born into a family of healers and raised in rural Mexico by a curandera mother and a nagual grandfather. |
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| Unlike some of the more colorful faith healers of the past, Dr. Krieger does not claim miraculous cures or divine interventions. |
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| It used to be known for dweomercraft, the craft of healers, magicians, those who know spells, those who know the sourcery of words. |
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| Access to medical care remains beyond the reach of many Malagasy, especially in the rural areas, and many recourse to traditional healers. |
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| Many sufferers try to cure themselves with the help of traditional healers. |
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| Before I got to South Africa, I even heard a rumor that whites were now becoming sangomas, traditional African healers. |
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| If acupuncturists and naturopaths deserve government-imposed coverage, why not faith healers and hypnotists? |
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| Alternative healers also espoused a decidedly antisurgical bias, and many promised cures that avoided the knife. |
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| Perhaps God thought the world needed physicians more than it needed faith healers. |
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| But Sunday Mail doctor Gareth Smith says it is dangerous to rely on faith healers. |
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| Noni, also known as Indian mulberry or cheesefruit, has been a staple of native healers, Saludes said. |
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| But with faith healers, people meditating under pyramids and a statue with growing hair to contend with, it looks as if he might have his work cut out. |
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| Rangers defender Andrews' career is in limbo at the moment as he weighs up whether to have a knee operation or continue to place his trust in faith healers. |
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| Mount, who joined the team last month, said there is no outright ban on the players to consult faith healers, but it is advised that he is consulted first. |
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| When ethnobotanists examined the bark of Samoa's mamala tree, traditionally used by healers to treat hepatitis, they found a compound known as prostratin. |
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| Although scientific evidence for ayahuasca as a cancer treatment is sparse, patients continue to seek this age-old medicine from traditional healers. |
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| In daily life, the Kallawaya use Spanish or Aymara, but when discussing the medicinal plants central to their role as healers, the men speak their own private language. |
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| Kublai was attracted by the abilities of Tibetan monks as healers. |
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| Most sick people turned to local healers and used folk remedies. |
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