Meaning of psychomedicine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
   rare, uncountable
2. The use of psychoactive drugs.
   uncountable

Examples

“The skull, nails and hairs are used in psychomedicine. The breast milk is used to prevent⟳ the eye ailments and to expell the spine or other particle from the body. The urine is also given in colic pain.”

“It is also called the age of new human sciences and life sciences including human biology, anthropology, cultural-anthropology, psychology and psychomedicine.”

CEFR level