root doctor

noun

root doctor

noun

1

Southern US A person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing.

She was sorry about the root-doctor because she feared that Joe was depending on the scoundrel to make him well when what he needed was a doctor, and a good one.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 82:

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