![]() ![]() Sri Lankan beliefs, knowledge, and practices have been used in healing through medical practices. Diverse forms of traditional knowledge existed in medical treatment for all forms of disease including viral, bacterial and fungal diseases all forms of surgeries all forms of mental illnesses and on healthy living and well-being of individuals and communities. It considers the internal and external forces that influenced in evolution of Sri Lanka’s traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions the historical developments and achievements in traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions in healing and well-being, giving examples of ancient historical and literary sources. Then, the paper traces the historical evolution of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. I have marked the parameters of my study by exploring and defining the concepts of ‘traditional knowledge’, ‘traditional cultural expressions’, ‘traditional knowledge in health’, ‘traditional healer’, ‘a healthy person’ and the notion of ‘well-being’. ![]() My paper is an exploration of the dying secrets of traditional knowledge in health and well-being in Sri Lanka and an attempt to find ways of safeguarding it as intangible cultural heritage of the humanity. Societies from all parts of the world possess rich sets of experience, understanding and explanation. Sophisticated knowledge of the natural world is not confined to western science. ![]()
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