Each of these adjectives conveys much more direct meaning. Expand your repertoire of adjectives and limit what you are describing with them. These different building or structures have names which may vary from place to place and can be learned for additional accuracy. Don't confuse the words language and dialect. There are over 1000 distinct languages on both the African and Asian continents.
Every continent has a wide variety of vegetation.
The countryside in Africa, Asia and South America is savannah, grasslands, desert, scrub, alpine, conifer forest, tropical forest, equatorial forest and other classifications. As you travel, concentrate on observing your surroundings and work to expand your vocabulary. African traditional or folk medicine is a treasure house of knowledge rivaling that of the Chinese. What he practices, then, is traditional healing or herbalism. If he specializes in emotional disorders, he is doing psychic healing.