The article talks about folk medicine, formed on the basis of the life of the Kazakh people. Folk medicine is an ethnographic phenomenon. For many centuries, each nation has developed in its own way, developed its traditions and customs, in the same way people have been looking for ways to get rid of various diseases. The nomadic population faced various diseases... People tried to find the causes of diseases, to develop ways to prevent and combat them, to find their own methods of treatment. The formation of Kazakh traditional medicine was influenced by its nomadic lifestyle. Based on this, healers found out how to treat and what preparation to use. The article discusses the opinion of scientists who have studied the use of methods and techniques of medicine by the Kazakh people in everyday life. The research results prove that medicine among the Kazakh people has existed since immemorial time. Knowledge of human anatomy, the ability to diagnose by heartbeat, disease prevention and the use of an antibiotic recognized in the West as a “revolutionary discovery”,  prevention of marriages up to the seventh generation, taking into account the fact that various diseases are transmitted genetically, the quarantine of an entire village so that the disease does not progress as the epidemic spreads, the ability to treat surgical diseases in various ways determines how well the population knew medicine. The article also provides admiration and scientific confirmation of the therapeutic measures of Kazakh people by Russian doctors who visited the Kazakh steppe during the times of tsarist Russia.