Sentence examples for healers from inspiring English sources

"People have become complacent and are still touching corpses, washing bodies and taking sick people to traditional healers," Conteh told reporters in Freetown.

If the community health worker is not a trusted partner, with a reliable supply of medicines, community members are much more likely to seek drugs from dodgy sources and/or continue to use traditional healers.

"Physicians are healers, not executioners...The legal system has painted itself into this corner and it is not our obligation to get it out".

Fretilin, which currently has about two-thirds of parliamentary seats, is furious that Mr Gusmão has chosen a name so provocatively similar to that of the National Council of Timorese Resistance the alliance of parties, led by Fretilin, that campaigned against Indonesian rule in the late 1990s.Both Mr Ramos-Horta and Mr Guterres are projecting themselves as healers and uniters.

Even when villagers accepted the need for medical help they initially relied on traditional healers who treated them with tree bark.

Fully 86% of the women of reproductive age in the poor world outside China and India (which have liberal abortion laws) live in countries that restrict it tightly.Back-alley abortions in such countries may involve homemade drug-cocktails, traditional healers and other quack remedies, as well as amateur surgery.

Mrs Mishra turns to faith-healers for a miracle, her husband seeks solace in the bottle.

Particularly noticeable was the success of a variety of prophets, magicians, and healers e.g., John the Baptist, Jesus, Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Alexander the Paphlagonian, and the cult of the healer Asclepius whose preaching corresponded to the activities of various Greek and Roman philosophic missionaries.

The function of stringed instruments in the healing process is often an indirect one: a healing specialist may sing powerful songs to the accompaniment of a lute (the gimbrī of the Gnawa musician-healers of North Africa ) or a fiddle (in Central Asia).

In the past, figuring out which plants to screen for therapeutic potential involved ethnomedical study in which traditional healers from village shamans to tale-telling old wives were asked to identify valuable species.

For this role you will need a National Federation of Spiritual Healers qualification or Reiki Master Usui System qualification".