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African traditional medicine, a Common card
African traditional medicine is a range of traditional medicine disciplines involving indigenous herbalism and African spirituality, typically including diviners, midwives, and herbalists.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 174
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Ranked #1,049 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Practitioners of traditional African medicine claim to be able to cure a variety of diverse conditions including cancer, psychiatric disorders, high blood pressure, cholera, most venereal diseases, epilepsy, asthma, eczema, fever, anxiety, depression, benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary tract infections, gout, and healing of wounds and burns and Ebola.
- Diagnosis is reached through spiritual means and a treatment is prescribed, usually consisting of a herbal remedy that is considered to have not only healing abilities but also symbolic and spiritual significance.
- Traditional African medicine, with its belief that illness is not derived from chance occurrences, but through spiritual or social imbalance, differs greatly from modern scientific medicine, which is technically and analytically based.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The African traditional medicine article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, African traditional medicine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bonnahjnr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.







