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{{Short description|Ancient Filipino art of healing}} {{Multiple issues| {{More citations needed|date=January 2025}} {{Fringe theories|date=May 2025}} }} {{Alternative medicine sidebar |traditional}} '''Hilot''' (/HEE-lot/) is a [[Philippines|Filipino]] practice that is intended to heal. It uses manipulation and [[massage]] to attempt the treatment outcome, although techniques vary among practitioners.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective|last1=Oths|first1=Kathryn S.|last2=Hinojosa|first2=Servando Z.|date=2004|publisher=Rowman Altamira|isbn=0759103925|location=Walnut Creek|pages=141}}</ref> It emerged from the [[Philippine shamans|shamanic tradition]] of the ancient Filipinos with healers considering their practice as derived from their calling from visions or from having been born by breech.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
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