What are the traditional healing practices in rural Bangladesh?
What is a healing practice?
Common healing practices include: The use of medicines that are drunk, smoked, injected, or otherwise taken into the body; methods of getting things out of the body by emetics, cathartics, purgatives, bloodletting, or surgery; manipulations of the body through touch and gestures or with specific materials; diagnostic or divinatory practices that establish the nature of the affliction in terms of its causes, consequences, or some other classificatory scheme; and the use of rituals and ceremonies incorporating words, music, costumes, and other theatrical devices that may involve the afflicted individual or the healer alone, interaction between patient and healer, or the participation of a whole group or community.