Sentences with phrase «book folk medicine»

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As I combed dozens and dozens of books on medicinal plants and folk medicine searching for chile pepper citations, one of the most frequent references we found were those linking chile peppers to the treatment of skin problems of all kinds.

When I did the folk medicine research for my book, The Healing Powers of Peppers, I found quite a few hangover «cures.»

These examples show the power of probabilistic thinking to override our intuitive sense of numbers, or what I call «folk numeracy,» in parallel with my previous columns on «folk science» (August 2006) and «folk medicine» (August 2008) and with my book on «folk economics» (The Mind of the Market).

Informed by the theory and practices of Ayurveda, folk medicine and scientific research, the new book Food As Medicine: The Theory and Practice of Food provides a practical and lucid model of what food is, how it impacts your health, and how to make the best choices in your diet - all depending on your individuamedicine and scientific research, the new book Food As Medicine: The Theory and Practice of Food provides a practical and lucid model of what food is, how it impacts your health, and how to make the best choices in your diet - all depending on your individuaMedicine: The Theory and Practice of Food provides a practical and lucid model of what food is, how it impacts your health, and how to make the best choices in your diet - all depending on your individual needs.