Talk:Folk medicine

message: I am doing a reseach on tradional medicine, basically the advantages and disadvantages of using it.
* Merge with traditional
I think the merge should be the other way around from that suggested at top of those pages - merge Folk into Traditional. Simply because Traditional is also applied to tradtional food and related health practices, which is fast becoming a mainstream health practice in its own right.--Ziji 22:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: A serious cleanup on this article is required. The preface is longer than the rest of the article combined. It should be short and to the point. Also, the paragaphs are dauntingly huge. I'd go and edit it, but I'd probably just end up making it more pedantic in the process. 24.254.141.144 12:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup required 

message: On a fundamental level aren't traditional and folk medicine the same thing? I think the two should be merged into the traditional medicine. The paragraphs do look enormous as well. I might give it a try, but no guarantees. Color-Copycat (talk) 06:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Although there is large overlap, the denotative and connotative definitions differ. Folk medicine refers to healing practices and ideas of body physiology widely known to lay people in a culture, transmitted informally via non-medical people, and practiced by lay people. Traditional medicine can include aspects of folk medicine that have a long history, but may also be institutionalized and formalized, with practice restricted to those who have served an apprenticeship, undergone some sort of training or testing, or in a specific social role. Both can coexist. Merger was a bad idea. alteripse (talk) 09:57, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like Traditional medicine and Folk medicine are different enough that a merge wouldn't make sense. However, after trying to look up some information on home remedies, I came across Home remedy, Folk medicine, and Alternative medicine, all of which seem to me to be either the same or similar enough topics that the former two could be merged into the latter. Any thoughts? Truncat (talk) 03:13, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think part of the above description can just migrate into the article, and maybe even some more argumentation regarding the difference in definitions.--69.118.81.70 (talk) 08:34, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd be very careful about doing such a thing for the following reasons: It must be properly sourced and specifically mention "folk medicine", and it must not involve improper synthesis or original research. We've already got content that seems to do that. -- Brangifer (talk) 23:19, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  You probably are right. On the other hand, this statement about "folk medicine" and lay people seems quite obvious in itself. I'll try to find a reputable source that either makes such a distinction (from Traditional medicine), or at least gives a concrete definition for the term "folk medicine". --69.118.81.70 (talk) 01:46, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Until a firm distinction is offered in the text (which currently isn't the case), I support merging the two articles. Right now, they seem to both describe the same thing. Kaldari (talk) 23:58, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

text: * You're more than a year too late. No one really watches this page anymore. -- BullRangifer (talk) 05:36, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge