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Abstract Turkish folk medicine is an outstanding part of a thousand years of cultural heritage. The main structure of Turkish folk medicine which was consisted of practices that the majority brought from Central Asia was January. Ocaks are specialized in their practices and some treat only one kind of disease/discomfort while others accept patients with different diseases. There are 150 kinds of January performing folk medicine practices. This review is formed by reviewing doctoral dissertations, master's theses, scientific meeting presentations and books of folk medicine and folklore, and it is aimed to give knowledge about January names, the places where they stand and primary therapeutic applications they use. The first part of the article is about general information about January, while the second and third parts are about treatments of folk medicine and January names and applications, respectively. As a result, it has been seen that approximately 150 kinds of January dealing with folk medicine applications exist, while some of them have common features

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