COVİD-19: KÜRESEL SALGIN SÜRECİNDE GELENEKSEL VE TAMAMLAYICI TEDAVİ UYGULAMALARI.

History of medicine is full of medicinal plant uses, applied against diseases, and diagnosis and treatment based on religion and magic. This field of study, called folk medicine, examines the oral health information transmitted from generation to generation. These practices, which are considered as traditional and complementary therapies today, have once again found themselves as an academic and popular curiosity among the public, perhaps more than ever, in the process of coronavirus (Covid-19 - new coronavirus) epidemic. In the period in which modern medicine has not yet found a cure and drug and vaccination studies are continuing, there is a period in our country, as in the whole world, in which people seek and use "alternative" ways / methods to protect against the virus. In this process, it is observed that people from all walks experience "traditionally" and firstly use complementary practices that they learn from their family or close circle. Communities think about where / why the disease comes from and do the treatment as they perceive it. Due to the global pandemic, scientific researches and academic writings on the world scale, news on the internet and in the press are known to affect the fiction of the cause-effect relationships and the individual / social perception in our country. From this point of view, while investigating traditional treatment methods applied in public in the Covid-19 outbreak, it is firstly necessary to focus on "social diagnosis", the meaning that society places on the cause of the pandemic disease. On the other hand, there is traditional health / disease knowledge of each society that is unique and formed on the basis of cultural background, religion, belief, history etc. This accumulation, which creates localcultural treatment systems, also affects the measures taken against the virus. In this context, all the practices of traditional treatment for preventive treatment, the use of medicinal plants, practices on the basis of religionmagic are discussed within the scope of this research. In this article, traditional treatment applications have been investigated within the scope of measures taken in our country in order not to catch Covid-19 (new coranavirus) disease, which was detected in Wuhan city of Hubei province of China and spread to the world shortly after the first case, and declared as a global epidemic by the World Health Organization. As it is a study conducted in the period of global epidemic, a research model that can be obtained with technological / digital possibilities has been preferred. The basic data of the article was obtained from the "problem-centered interview" model, which is one of the qualitative research techniques. Between April and July of 2020, 37 people selected for age and gender differences were interviewed via telephone, e-mail and online methods with semi-structured interview forms and open-ended questions. Interviews are limited to traditional practices for virus protection. During the epidemic, published scientific articles on the subject were examined. The information in the contents of the related news, which were simultaneously reflected in the press, was evaluated. Within the scope of the research, the information obtained from the sources and the observation results were analyzed together with the theoretical approaches in the field within the frame of cause-effect relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]