Prinosi proučavanju pučke mecicine u zapadnoj Hercegovini
Contributions to the study of folk medicine in Western Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the Herzegovinian traditional medicine, folk names for the disease that plagues people in the past, the parts of the body exposed to the disease and how the people appointed body parts. There are many drugs of plant, animal and mineral origin by the people made themselves. They were taught by the experience of elders books and herbal manuals that brought recipes for specific diseases. People from Herzegovina have always, even in illness, to help affected God, the mercy of God, Our Lady and the saints of God. They prayed, fasted, did vows. Very rarely they are practiced superstition. Traditional medicine has left a deep mark on this nation and people still use inherited, acquired knowledge in a variety of diseases.

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