Sentences with word «ethnobotanist»

Inspired by the diaries of Canadian ethnobotanist Wade Davis» non-fiction account of zombies in Haiti, this is one of Wes Craven's best films.
Garlic is a natural antifungal and may be one of the most effective treatments for fungal infections under the nail bed, says ethnobotanist James A. Duke, PhD, author of The Green Pharmacy and former scientist at the US Department of Agriculture.
Canadian ethnobotanist Wade Davis studied Haitian voodoo rituals in the 1980s and determined that a kind of «zombie» state can be induced with powerful naturally derived drugs.
An anthropological investigation by ethnobotanist Wade Davis postulated that the process of making a Haitian zombie is neuropharmacological, wherein bokors use a chemical found in many animals (especially puffer fish), called tetrodotoxin (TTX), to paralyze their targets and induce a near deathlike state.
An interview with ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin: Integrated biodiversity and cultural conservation can be more effective than traditional protected areas while delivering health benefits to local populations.
One study, published by ethnobotanist James A. Duke, concluded that curcumin has the ability to surpass the effects of potent anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals.
If you want something rare and ungettable from a shaman or witch doctor ethnobotanist Dr. Dennis Alan is your man.
Using a combination of science, community engagement and sheer determination, ethnobotanist Cox and Village Chief Senio raised the funds needed to both build the school and protect one of the last remaining lowland forests in Polynesia.
The domestication of the chinense species occurred around 2000 B.C., and, according to ethnobotanist Barbara Pickersgill, «it was probably connected with the development of agriculture in tropical forests.
No domesticated frutescens has ever been found in an archaeological site in Middle or South America, but ethnobotanists speculate the domestication site was probably Panama and from there it spread to South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Ethnobotanists believe that birds were responsible for the spread of most wild chiles — and indeed, the chiltepin is called the «bird pepper.»
In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.
«It used to be just a pat answer that you could not get dense settlements of people living in complex social organisations without this productive crop,» says Deborah Pearsall, a palaeo - ethnobotanist at the University of Missouri.
In this episode, ethnobotanist Nat Bletter talks about his field and his recent article about the new plant family Simulacraceae — the phony plants.
The cobs, says ethnobotanist Bruce Benz of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, show classic signs of domestication: Seeds are held tightly to a rigid cob, and would therefore have depended on humans to break off and plant the seeds.
In a question - and - answer session, Emory ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave urged Price to have Congress give increased attention to the problem of antibiotic resistance, in which some bacterial infections are becoming difficult to treat.
Other ideas: Pack a thermos of nettle tea (another natural antihistamine), says ethnobotanist Chris Kilham.
In Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina and Stress Relief, ethnobotanist David Winston and herbal expert Steven Maimes recommend the following:
Artist and ethnobotanist T'uy» t» tanat - Cease Wyss is the 2018 Indigenous storyteller in residence at VPL.
Philosopher and ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna believed that the boundaries between machines, animals, plants, biotechnology, and art were becoming more fluid and would lead to a transformation of human consciousness, and he traveled to the Amazon in search of transformative experience, which he found through indigenous shamanism and the psychoactive plant «ayahuasca».
We don't know if anyone tried to resurrect Qin, but in the 1980s, anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis documented cases of the «dead» rising from their graves in Haiti.
«It takes about four or five days to build up the pain relieving effect,» said Rob McCaleb, an ethnobotanist and president and founder of the Herb Research Foundation in Boulder, Colorado.
And my friend Gary Nabhan, who is an ethnobotanist, revealed that the Tarahumara Indians of Sonora, Mexico use the tiny chiltepins in curing ceremonies — not to rid someone of a current affliction, but to prevent maladies as a result of future witchcraft.
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Garrett Smith's article casts new light on the age - old stories that ethnobotanists have been sharing about American Southwest agriculture and cusine.
Rob McCaleb, an ethnobotanist and president of the Herb Research Foundation in Boulder, Colorado, observes that various kinds of chile actually helps digestion and reduces flatulence by increasing the circulation in the stomach and intestines so that food is processed and absorbed more efficiently.
I network and collaborate with botanists, evolutionary biologists, ethnobotanists, zoologists, ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and hydrologists.
Paul Cox, an ethnobotanist and director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, calls the team's work fascinating and says that although healers from indigenous tribes have long valued young leaves for their superior medicinal qualities, the team's work is «the first to test this hypothesis in a rigorous fashion.»
The domestication of maize is of particular interest to researchers - especially archaeologists, geneticists, ethnobotanists and geographers.
McKenna, an ethnobotanist from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, is high on ayahuasca.
Garrett Smith's article casts new light on the age - old stories that ethnobotanists have been sharing about American Southwest agriculture and cusine.
DAVID WINSTON, RH (AHG) is an American herbalist and ethnobotanist.
A friend of mine is an ethnobotanist and he says that I can only be on ashwagandha for 3 months, then off for three months, then back on, etc., because it is an immunomodulator.
Im a ethnobotanist love the outdoors love travelling, I teach bushcraft / survival skills foraging etc, love the mountains, sunsets / sunrises make an effort and you get to see some amazing sights, get in touch for a chat.
Aside from the setup of an ethnobotanist being sent down to investigate the zombie phenomena, the movie and the book have almost nothing in common.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Stella Maris Atelier announces the publication of Olfactory Code D4, a new series of scents developed following conversations between Linder, the perfumer Persephenie, and the ethnobotanist Maria Blum, director of Stella Maris Atelier.
Dr. Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist who heads the Amazon Conservation Team, a group that works with tribes to protect rainforests in Suriname, Colombia, and Brazil, agrees.
Dr. Quansah is an ethnobotanist working in Madagascar, a country believed to contain almost half of the world's plant species.
An ethnobotanist, Nat Quansah reintroduced the use of native plants as medicine to thousands of Malagasy people in an Ambodisakoana clinic he opened, educating the community about the need for forest conservation.
Most of what I know comes from spending time with knowledgeable friends who are herbalists, survivalists, ethnobotanists and primitive skills enthusiasts.
I'm an Ethnobotanist.
Dr. Jill Stansbury is a naturopath and ethnobotanist, living in Battle Ground, WA.
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