Traditional medicine: towards a paradigm rooted in popular culture of the Eastern Rif (Oulad Settout tribe in Zaio as a model)

Abstract

Traditional medicine: towards a paradigm rooted in popular culture of the Eastern Rif (Oulad Settout tribe in Zaio as a model), a topic that reveals to us cultural and heritage worlds, in which the Eastern Rif of Morocco in general, and Oulad Settout particularly, despair of our wounds and heals our diseases, known as grandmother or mother medicine. We tried to reveal its secrets and hidden secrets that is engraved. The field study that we conducted revealed the existence of a deep-rooted cultural heritage known to the young and old, due to the fact that it is derived from the Prophetic Sunnah and inherited through grandparents, children and grandchildren, a space witnessing rational Behaviors and practices based on experience first, and repetition second.