Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. E-mail: izetmasic gmail. We could say that traditional healing is a way of healing that has been common since ancient times. It has been passed down from generation to generation for many centuries. Magic medicine, although not approved by any of the monotheistic religions present in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and strictly prohibited by Islam, in the form of various magical acts and spells, exists among the people.
Some of these magical practices have their roots in the pre-Christian Slavic period and earlier. The aim of this article was to provide the review of the traditional medicine during the history and today in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Review of the available literature, personal contacts and personal experience in contact with the traditional medcine. Especially in the mentally ill, there seemed to be a certain divine or demonic origin of the disease. Muslim folk medicine divides diseases into two groups; in fevers and obsessions with unclean spirits.
Folk medicine knows the healing properties of herbs and other substances of animal or mineral origin. The medicinal properties of simple foods that can be found in every home are also widely used, such as: milk, honey, vinegar, oil, onion, and garlic. They were written mostly by Catholic priests.
Traditional medicine is important for history of medicine, ethnology, anthropology, and abounds in folklore elements. It is an area that leads to knowing, understanding or feeling the very nucleus of a nation. The word tradition comes from the Latin word traditio tradere - to hand over and has the following meanings 1 : a Tradition, oral transmission of historical material; b custom, order, rules of conduct passed from generation to generation; c the manner of acquiring ownership of mobile property by handover from hand to hand; traditional, which has come to us by tradition, which transcends, which is handed down from generation to generation 2.
We could say that traditional healing is a way of healing that has been common since ancient times 3. Talking to people of different social backgrounds, educational status, refugees, doctors, professors, priests, neighbors and simply my friends, Its became convinced of how deeply rooted the belief in the therapeutic power of certain procedures is, and when they have no rational foothold in official medicine.
