On the Interaction of Official Medicine of the Russian Empire and Kazakh Steppe Healing in the XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries
О взаимодействии официальной медицины Российской империи и казахского степного целительства в XIX – начале XX в.
Sadvokassova Z.T. Shegirov K.M. Zhumabayeva Z.K. Baizhumanova Z.B.
1 March 2026Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2026#21Issue 1277 - 286 pp.
Traditional healing practices, which existed before the advent of official scientific medicine, are one of the important components of the life of an ethnic group, designed at one time to ensure the survival of both the community as a whole and its individual representatives in particular. Kazakh steppe healing in the XIX – the beginning of the XX centuries is the result of a long process of accumulation, borrowing and transfer to subsequent generations of knowledge about bodily and mental health, ways to preserve and restore it, methods of recognizing and treating diseases, healing properties of medicines of various origins. Sources about the activities of steppe healers were fragmentary references to traditional healing among Kazakhs in essays, notes, diary entries of ethnographers, military men, travelers and missionaries of the 19th century, archival documents, materials of rare library collections. The results of the study were obtained by studying archival and narrative sources, comparative analysis of their content, synthesis of deductive conclusions and inductive conclusions, generalization of the facts. Thus, the basis for the prevention of diseases was the promotion of the health of fellow tribesmen, which was ensured by the traditional way of life, an indispensable component of which was physical activity in the fresh air, including horse riding, as well as the diet of the steppe, due to both the specifics of material production and the harsh continental climate. Based on a critical analysis of the sources, methods of treatment and the remedies used by Kazakh healers, as well as their foundations, are described: knowledge of the healing properties of plants, products and minerals; lessons learned; Tengrianism; Islam; superstitions. Certain methods and means of healing, in particular, koumiss treatment, have been recognized as useful representatives of rational medicine.
diagnosis , history , Ishans , Islam , Kazakhs , Kozha , methods and means of treatment , prevention , Shamans , Tengrianism
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Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Independent researcher, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Astana International University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology
Independent researcher
Astana International University
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