Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Lokman Hekim Tıp Tarihi ve Folklorik Tıp Dergisi

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Traditional applications due to its geographical location in the country revealed a melting pot of many different cultures. Disease prevention, disease, and frequent events in the past as a result of improving the experiences gained, has led to the emergence of folk medicine are passed from generation to generation. In our country, both individual curiosities for centuries, as well as inadequate health care, the past to the present is different from traditional medical practices. In this study, the 64-year-old traditional methods of treatment, medical practitioner, women were interviewed people engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. Conducting traditional practices; cattle owners who lived next to his father and his family, during the war of liberation that offers health care services due to inadequate health services, from Mezitli’li learned from an elderly aunt. Closely examines these applications from an early age and has been since the age of 20. Treatment of diseases of the people is the subject of study. These diseases are headache, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, vomiting, bowel cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, rheumatism, hemorrhoids, food poisoning, insect bites, shortness of breath, belly drop, termination of pregnancy, and burn healing herbal remedies preparing This person, who lives with his family in the province of Mersin Davultepe neighborhood, using the methods of treatment using herbal drugs. Data were collected from a three-hour in-depth interview technique. In this paper, a public medical practitioner who: offered to the public will to treat the subject of methods and prepared mixtures