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The history of medicine is full of examples of therapeutic plants used by the public against diseases, diagnosis and treatment of religion and magic origins. This field of study, called public medicine, examines oral health knowledge transmitted from generation to generation. These practices, today referred to as traditional and complementary treatments, have found themselves a place as an academic and popular area of curiosity that has shown a great deal of interest among the public during the global epidemic of coronavirus (Covid-19 - new coronavirus). Modern medicine is still unable to find a solution, the process of continuing medication and vaccination studies is a period in which people in our country are searching for and applying for "alternative" ways to protect against the virus. In this process, it is observed that a person from each section applies to complementary practices that he experiences as "traditional", first of all learned from his family or close surroundings. Societies think where the disease comes from and how they are perceived, they do the treatment as well. Because of the global epidemic, scientific research and academic writings on a global scale, the news on the internet and the press are also known to affect the philosophy of the causal-resultate relationships of the epidemic and the individual/social perception in our country. From here on, researching the traditional methods of treatment used among the public in the Covid-19 epidemic, it is necessary to focus first on the "social diagnosis" meaning that society is charged with the cause of the epidemic disease. On the other hand, each society has its own cultural accumulation, religion, faith, history, etc. There is traditional health/sickness information transmitted from generation to generation on the basis. Local-cultural supply systems have been formed – this accumulation also affects the measures taken against the virus. In this context, in the methods of protection – which is also highlighted among the recommendations of modern medicine – all practices for the purification and hygiene, the traditional treatment for caution, the use of healing plants, the practices carried out on the basis of religious magic are addressed within this limited research. This article explores what the traditional treatment practices are first remembered within the scope of the measures taken among the people in China to prevent Covid-19 (new coranavirus) disease, which was detected in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, and spread throughout the world shortly after the first vaccine was seen, declared a global epidemic by the World Health Organization. Due to a study conducted in the period of global epidemic, a research model that can be achieved with technological/digital possibilities has been preferred. The data based on the article is obtained from the quality research techniques with the "problem-centered conversation" model. Between April and July of 2020, 37 people were selected to monitor age and gender differences and interacted by telephone, e-mail and online methods with semi-configured forms of conversation and open-end questions. Interviews are limited to traditional practices made to protect against the virus. Scientific articles published on the subject have been examined in the process; information in the content of the relevant news reflected in the press at the same time has been evaluated. In the context of the research, the information obtained from the source persons and the observation results were analyzed along with the theoretical approaches in the field in the framework of the cause-resultate relationship.

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