Over the course of history, self-anointed healers have included magicians, mediums, apothecaries, barbers and priests.
For that kind of real-world data breach, unfortunately, there are no Spirit Healers.
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"The entire operation will be under the control of around five highly qualified traditional healers, " said Mr Msasizi.
Community workers and traditional healers can be trained to do the operation safely and given the correct tools.
Yet government must also do more to take the side of charities and community healers and support their work.
Fueled by suspicion of doctors and drug companies, Americans are flocking to alternative healers promoting risky treatments and unproven cures.
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Frelimo, once eager (in vain) to suppress indigenous religious beliefs, has started to encourage traditional healers to help in health-education campaigns.
Along with pain relief, Mr Cracknell said osteopathy and holistic healers had been used to treat Anne over the last 18 months.
In the past she used traditional African healers, even though their medicines didn't work, because she couldn't afford the national health plan.
It's just that astrologers, shamans, and natural healers have none of them.
Nazir Afzal, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North-West of England, says that "problem" healers are something the police are getting intelligence on.
Traditional healers and herbalists are also benefiting from the regionwide recession.
Meanwhile, time, corporate restructuring and exports to China have been great healers for the economy, putting the country into stronger shape to accept reform too.
He says without access to education, people are more likely to follow the claims of traditional healers and pass down those beliefs to the next generation.
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Through that office we are working to ensure that local community helpers and healers receive more federal dollars, greater private support and face fewer bureaucratic barriers.
Organisations such as the Traditional Healers Organisation have for years been trying to legitimise the practice and have it held in the same regard as Western medicine.
In the same spirit, I hope America's foundations consider ways they may devote more of their money to our nation's neighborhood and their helpers and their healers.
Christopher Davis, an anthropologist at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), said traditional healers can play a role as mental health providers.
Raba said that faith healers tend to be well versed in Ayurveda, a field of indigenous medicine that focuses on lifestyle habits such as diet and fitness.
Yet frustratingly, annoyingly and illegally there are unqualified healers out there offering to treat vulnerable sick people who are desperate to free themselves of this life-destroying illness.
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Medicine and law have far fewer examples of top practitioners succeeding without professional training despite the popularity of some alternative healers and upstart legal heroes such as Erin Brockovich.
It is also used by traditional healers to diagnose illnesses.
But now a group of traditional healers, whose own alleged spiritual powers afford them both fear and respect among many poor and rural communities, have offered to step in.
The secretary general of the national council for traditional healers and herbalists association (Nacotha), Karim Msasizi, told BBC News Online they had already sent their proposal to the government.
Professor Mwami says the charging of any type of fee is not typical among traditional African healers and is more common among con artists capitalizing on the fears of others.
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"One of the biggest healers was getting the first horse for my friends, " said Douglas, dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses at the Meydan Hotel which overlooks the track.
In addition, local traditional healers, or amchis, are not only responsible for provision of health care, but also for environmental management, such as the regulation of grazing in alpine pastures.
In India -- where there is one psychiatrist per 500, 000 people and only one psychiatric nurse per 2 million, according to World Health Organization figures -- faith healers are commonplace.
"Exorcism is a way of life" in this northwestern region, he explained in an iReport that documents the daily purification rituals conducted by local faith healers at the Balaji temple.
Therefore, the social role of the Bakhshis exceeds that of mere narrator, and defines them as judges, mediators and healers, as well as guardians of the ethnic and regional cultural heritage of their community.
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