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  2. Traditional healers of Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    Both men and women can become traditional healers. A sangoma is believed to be "called" to heal through an initiation illness; symptoms involve psychosis, headaches, intractable stomach pain, shoulder, neck complaints, short breath, swollen feet and waist issues or illness that cannot be cured by conventional methods. [39]

  3. List of herbs with known adverse effects - Wikipedia

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    Potentiates CNS sedatives, [3] chronic use might cause a reversible dry skin condition. [18] Khat: qat Catha edulis: Chronic liver dysfunction [3] [19] Kratom: Mitragyna speciosa: Hepatotoxicity [20] [19] Liquorice root Glycyrrhiza glabra: Hypokalemia, hypertension, arrhythmias, edema [5] Lobelia: asthma weed, pukeweed, vomit wort Lobelia inflata

  4. Gay bowel syndrome - Wikipedia

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    "Gay bowel syndrome" is an obsolete classification of various sexually transmitted rectal infections observed in men who have sex with men.It was first used by Dr. Henry L. Kazal in 1976 to describe conditions he observed in his proctology practice, which had many gay patients. [1]

  5. How Stomach Issues May Be Affecting Your Sleep - AOL

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    There's a vicious cycle whereby IBS can cause insomnia and disrupt your ability to get quality sleep, only to make the abdominal symptoms and related anxiety and tiredness worse the next day ...

  6. Spirit possession - Wikipedia

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    These evil spirits cause unexplainable disasters, agricultural shocks and possessions. Disease is the cause of the supernatural where they do not have control over. Usually in the writings about this, the healers are the ones being described with detail, not so much the patient. Magical practices are sometimes what spirit possession is referred ...

  7. Dosha - Wikipedia

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    Dosha (Sanskrit: दोषः, IAST: doṣa) is a central term in ayurveda originating from Sanskrit, which can be translated as "that which can cause problems" (literally meaning "fault" or "defect"), and which refers to three categories or types of substances that are believed to be present conceptually in a person's body and mind.

  8. The body in traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    The Liver rules one's direction, vision, sense of self-purpose and opens into the eyes. Lastly, the Liver absorbs what is not digested and regulates blood sugar. Imbalance in the Liver can lead to great problems. Moodiness, anger, pain, poor self-esteem, lack of direction, addiction, and indecision are all associated with the Liver organ.

  9. Ghost sickness - Wikipedia

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    Ghost sickness is a culture-bound syndrome among some indigenous peoples in North America and Polynesian peoples in which people are preoccupied with the deceased or consumed by pathological grief.