Table 10.
Western Practitioners' evaluation of Traditional healing, faith healing or alternative medicine treatment outcomes (N =30)
| Treatment outcome | Traditional healing | Herbalist | Alternative medicine |
Biomedicine |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| Major positive | 1 (3.3) | 1 (3.3) | 20 (66.7) | |
| Some positive | 7 (23.3) | 9 (30) | 18 (60.0) | 8 (26.7) |
| Neither | 4 (13.3) | 4 (13.3) | 1 (3.3) | 1 (3.3) |
| Some negative | 3 (10) | 3 (10) | 3 (10) | 1 (3.3) |
| Major negative | 8 (26.7) | 3 (10) | ||
| Don't know | 5 (16.7) | 10 (33.3) | 7 (23.3) | |
| Missing cases | 2 (6.7) |