Another challenge of researching traditional medical practices is the lack of consistency and clarity in the terminology used by authors to describe various beliefs and practices. Often the term “traditional medicine” is loosely applied to a variety of diverse activities that are not always uniformly acknowledged among Indigenous practitioners and their clients. It is a useful exercise to discuss the variety of definitions that traditional medicine is, or is not accorded, the latter being the case in most academic and non-academic journals. Of all the literature reviewed, only a handful of sources offered general descriptions of the characteristics of.
