Folk Medicine
MD Voldemar Sumberg and the Folk Medicine Collection of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene from the 1920s and 1930s
... 10 So far, only one copy of the Museum’s questionnaire has been found. For now, there has been no indication that this questionnaire could also be among the Museum’s files at the Estonian State Archives. A copy of this ...
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Antioxidant Study and Electroanalytical Investigation of Selected Herbal Samples Used in Folk Medicine
... In the context of folk medicine, teas and tinctures are widely used to extract phytocompounds. These preparations are regarded as the main therapeutic intervention in most third world countries, and their ...
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Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era
... collecting folk medicine and followed the ques- tionnaire of Kask and ...on folk medicine among the other topics, which might be casual recordings, but the influence of the above-mentioned ...
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The use of the head louse as a remedy for jaundice in Spanish folk medicine: an overview
... was highly valued by Classical Greek philosophers such as Empedocles or Plato [66,67]. Second, folk medicine users also create their own conceptions about health by developing theories with rational bases. ...
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From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)
... A large range of objects, associated with healing saints, were used in Italian folk medicine: sacred images, Saint Vito’s rope, Saint Francesco’s stick, etc. Other objects, however, even if they weren’t ...
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Antiurolithic activity of different fractions of Aganosma dichotoma as folk medicine of Andhra Pradesh
... Aganosma dichotoma K. Schum (family: Apocynaceae) is a large climber commonly called the Malati in Hindi, Jati in Sanskrit, and Adavi malathi in Telugu. The root of the plant is folk medicine and used as ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with the use of alternative (folk) medicine practitioners in 8 countries of the former Soviet Union
... (folk) medicine practitioners in the countries of the former Soviet Union ...alternative folk remedies was also widespread [20] in an environment where shortages of conventional pharma- ceutical ...
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Essay on Igbo Folk Medicine as an Indispensable Aspect of Health Care Delivery in the 21ST Century
... to folk medicine even in this ...age, folk medicine shows its originality and potency through some modern ...modern medicine is based on plant phytochemicals that had been used in ...
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SUSCEPTIBILITY OF HELICOBACTER AND CAMPYLOBACTER TO CRUDE EXTRACTS PREPARED FROM PLANTS USED IN CAMEROONIAN FOLK MEDICINE
... Crude extracts prepared from plants used in the Cameroon folk medicine, were tested for their anti microbial properties against Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) CCUG-39500 and Campylobacter jejuni/coli (C. ...
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Antidiabetic potential of two medicinal plants used in Gabonese folk medicine
... traditional medicine [11]. Several plants are used in folk medicine for their hypoglycemic activity and they were investigated using different experimental methods ...
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Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy)
... Calabrian folk medicine remedies for the prophylaxis and treatment of malaria, if not com- pared with similar studies, can be considered a case study where the ordinary methodologies of ethno-medi- ...
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PHYTOTHERAPEUTIC PRACTICES OF A SPIRITUALIST FOLK MEDICINE PRACTITIONER OF BANGLADESH
... Background. Folk medicine is one of the oldest forms of traditional medicinal practices in ...Bangladesh. Folk medicinal practitioners (FMPs) are quite common and there is usually at least one FMP in ...
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Canscora lucidissima, a Chinese folk medicine, exerts anti inflammatory activities by inhibiting the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 in LPS activated macrophages
... The herb of C. lucidissima has been widely used to treat inflammatory diseases as Zhuang folk medicine in south of China, especially in Guangxi and Guizhou provinces. Although C. lucidissima is considered ...
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Plants used in Mexican folk medicine with antidiabetic and antihypertensive properties
... Diabetes mellitus and hypertension (high blood pressure) are the most common diseases with high risk affecting most of the worldwide adult population in both sexes. In Mexico, cardiovascular diseases are the first cause ...
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Survey Report of Medicinal Plant Used in Folk Medicine in Tribal Areas of Pandhurna, District Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh)
... In India Dixit and Panday (1984) and sinha and Dogra (1985) have reported the plants used as folk medicine in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and Santhal Pargana in Bihar. Kirtikar & Basu have also worked on ...
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PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PERSICARIA HYDROPIPER (L.) DELARBRE OF BANGLADESHI MEDICINAL PLANT USED BY FOLK MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS
... Most importantly, P. hydropiper also has a wide range of traditional uses for medicinal purposes. In Europe, the plant has been used as diuretic and emmenagogue (Stuart GA et al., 1979) and to regulate menstrual ...
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FOLK MEDICINE FOR YAKRIT VIKAARA (LIVER DISORDER) A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW .......
... Folk medicine still plays an important role in communities throughout ...equilibrium. Folk medicine is remembered, conserved and passed down by word of mouth, demonstration and repetition from ...
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Documentation of Indigenous Knowledge on Folk Medicine in Doddakavalande Doddakavalande Hobli, Nanjangud Taluk of Mysore District, Karnataka
... In the present study, about 19 respondents of age group between 50 to 89 yrs gave information of traditional medicines used to cure various diseases in Doddakavale hobli. Most of the healers were from the age group of ...
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Norartocarpetin from a folk medicine Artocarpus communis plays a melanogenesis inhibitor without cytotoxicity in B16F10 cell and skin irritation in mice
... Norartocarpetin decreases cellular melanin production and tyrosinase activity by activating the phosphorylation of JNK and p38 and which results in reducing of MITF protein and p-CREB an[r] ...
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Folk medicine in the northern coast of Colombia: an overview
... The work presented in this paper can be included into the general context of basic and applied ethnopharmacol- ogy because it was conceived to document the traditional knowledge on botanical medicine from ...
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