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  2. Navajo medicine - Wikipedia

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    Navajo Indians utilize approximately 450 species for medicinal purposes, the most plant species of any native tribe. Herbs for healing ceremonies are collected by a medicine man accompanied by an apprentice. Patients can also collect these plants for treatment of minor illnesses.

  3. Ghost sickness - Wikipedia

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    North American people associated with ghost sickness include the Navajo and some Muscogee and Plains cultures. In the Muscogee (Creek) culture, it is believed that everyone is a part of an energy called Ibofanga. This energy supposedly results from the flow between mind, body, and spirit. Illness can result from this flow being disrupted.

  4. Iich'aa - Wikipedia

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    Iich'aa (Navajo: Iichʼąh, [1] pronounced “eech aaw”, no inflexion [2]) is a culture-bound syndrome found in the Navajo Native American culture. Symptoms include epileptic behaviour (nervousness, convulsions), loss of self-control, self-destructive behaviour and fits of violence and rage.

  5. Medicine man - Wikipedia

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    Medicine people use many practices, including specialized knowledge of Native American ethnobotany. [2] Herbal healing is a common practice in many Indigenous households of the Americas; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] however, medicine people often have more in-depth knowledge of using plants for healing or other purposes.

  6. List of substances used in rituals - Wikipedia

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    Native American Church is known as peyotism. [29] [30] Also used in the Oshara tradition. Red ucuuba: Virola sebifera: Bark: DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic: The smoke of the inner bark of the tree is used by shamans of the indigenous people of Venezuela in cases of fever conditions, or cooked for driving out evil ghosts. [31] Salvia: Salvia ...

  7. Disturbing video shows hundreds of maggots removed from ... - AOL

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    By RYAN GORMAN Horrifying video has emerged of doctors pulling maggots out of a man's ear. The unidentified Indian man went to a doctor's office to complain about hearing a non-stop buzzing sound.

  8. Ghosts in Polynesian culture - Wikipedia

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    After death, a person's ghost would normally travel to the sky world or the underworld, but some could stay on earth. In many Polynesian legends, ghosts were often involved in the affairs of the living. Ghosts might also cause sickness or even invade the body of ordinary people, to be driven out through strong medicines. [1]

  9. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    In some Native American cultures, a dreamcatcher made of yarn like a web is placed above a bed or sleeping area to protect sleeping children from nightmares. [ citation needed ] Others