A Cree Indian Treatment for Psoriasis: A Longitudinal Study
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article reports on the treatment of 10 non-native patients with psoriasis by a Cree Indian healer. The traditional treatment ceremony is described, and the changes in the course of the disease over a six-month period are documented using the patient’s subjective reports of symptoms, outline tracings of selected lesions, videotapes and photographs. The study is unique in two ways: (1) it included a variety of documentary procedures seldom allowed by native healers and it was conducted under conditions that facilitated evaluation; and (2) to the researchers’ knowledge, it is the first study of traditional native medicine with long-term follow-up of participants. Initially, all patients responded to the treatment, but by the sixth month improvement remained in only six patients. Difficulties encountered when conducting research on traditional healing are discussed and future research directions are indicated.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it