Write a short note on Local Health Traditions.

Apart from AYUSH, there are other local medical practices, especially

adopted by the rural people, and vary from region to region. These are known as

Local Health Traditions (LHT). Local health traditions refer to health promotion,

prevention, and curative methods having general acceptance and prevalence among

households of different socio-economic strata. They share common roots with the

indigenous textual systems, but also differ from them in some ways. Each household

practices the traditions as home remedies or through the services of various

traditional and folk practitioners. They are time tested traditions with no legal

sanction. Other than the home remedies, various forms of informal providers via

Traditional Health Practitioners (THP), Folk Healers (FoH), Faith Healers (FH),

Dais and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) are catering to masses' health needs.