healer
Example Sentences
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Such juju men sometimes refer to themselves as herbalists, the name given to healers who use traditional medicine often made from local plants to treat common illnesses.
From BBC
Fan delivered what some critics hailed as a breakthrough performance with her portrayal of a widowed farmer and ritual healer in "Mother Bhumi", a far cry from her usual glamorous roles.
From Barron's
"The big unanswered question now is which strains are the healers, and which are the troublemakers."
From Science Daily
"We recently held a festival with traditional healers where we sat together and talked," the commissioner tells the BBC.
From BBC
When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
