Traditional Healer - Differentiating Them For Your Benefit
A traditional healer is a person recognized in his community and beyond for providing health and social care using herbs, bones, animal trinkets, dreams, prayers, calling spirits and many other methods determined by the society they come from. Traditional healers in Southern Africa are not similar to the rest of Africa or Shamans in South America. The society determines the traditional healing practices of the traditional healer.
Traditional healers differ in the techniques they use and what they do. Some traditional healers are psychics (clairvoyants), herbalists, diviners, and prophets. Each one of these traditional healer has his own area of expertise and the techniques they use differ considerably and they are often influenced by the society in which they come from.
However the distinction between the types of traditional healers is no longer all that clear as they play overlapping roles. Some psychics dispense herbs and some herbalists use plants to look into a crystal ball like psychics.
Differentiating Traditional Healers – Diviners and Prophets:
Diviners:
Diviners are usually intermediaries between humans and the ancestors. Most diviners are called into the reigns against their will. The diviners are usually chosen in their childhood. Some are called in their adulthood after a series of unexplainable problems. One common thing is that the person called into the ranks has no choice. If they try to refuse death may befall them or madness.Diviners explain the unexplainable problems and they also help foretelling what is to come using the help of spirits and ancestral help. Diviners help you solve problems that are torturing you.
Prophets / Faith Healers:
In the African and South American societies there are churches that combine modern religion and ancestral practices. In these religions we have leaders that have been called to perform duties of prophets. The prophets are traditional healers of a type and they use water, candles and prayers to solve people problems.Find more about Psychics, Clairvoyants and Herbalists by clicking on the relevant word.
Traditional healers treat normal ailments including supporting HIV / AIDS patients. Traditional healers also deal with problems that do not respond to western medical treatment that include: spirit possession (that leads to unexplainable diseases), sorcery (leading to madness), and ancestral wrath, neglect of cultural rites or practices.
Traditional Healers often specialize in different things. Some traditional healers deal with normal ailments as we know them. Other traditional healers like me specialize in love and sexual problems. Other traditional healers deal with sorcery and bad luck issues. Other healers deal with attracting jobs and prosperity.
If you are looking for a traditional healer you have to determine first what your problem is. Your problem will give you guidance to what type of traditional healer you should seek out.