Levels of medicine in a central Nepali village

The villager in Nepal has ideas about what medicine should be, respect for specialists who can diagnose and cure, and a faith in the basic validity of the system. This paper explores the methods of healing within a village in central Nepal. As can be seen, there are various techniques of curing - herbal, ritual, western - all of which are integrated into a system designed to deal with the problem of illness and pain.