traditional health practice
means the performance of a function, activity, process or service based on a traditional philosophy that includes the utilisation of traditional medicine or traditional practice and which has as its object—
| a) |
the maintenance or restoration of physical or mental health or function; or |
| b) |
the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of a physical or mental illness; or |
| c) |
the rehabilitation of a person to enable that person to resume normal functioning within the family or community; or |
| d) |
the physical or mental preparation of an individual for puberty, adulthood, pregnancy, childbirth and death, |
but excludes the professional activities of a person practising any of the professions contemplated in the Pharmacy Act, 1974 (Act No. 53 of 1974), the Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act No. 56 of 1974), the Nursing Act, 1974 (Act No. 50 of 1974), the Allied Health Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 63 of 1982), or the Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979), and any other activity not based on traditional philosophy;
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