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Local health traditions, henceforth referred as to LHT, as used in Kerala State, south western India, consist of health traditions passed over generations through oral discourse. They fall under the broad realm of traditional medicine though they are distinctly different from classical medicine, which is codified and supported by written text. These health traditions include home remedies (“grandma’s medicine”) and country or folk medicine (Kumaran 2002) and are generally devoid of any spiritual beliefs.
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Aliar, R. (2010). Health Traditions in Kerala and Local Intellectual Property Rights. In: Kalantzis-Cope, P., Gherab-Martín, K. (eds) Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299047_25
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