Sentences with phrase «folks medicine»

Both externally and internally, chiles have a significant role in folk medicine for treating ailments related to the head.

Naturally, pineapple has been prized in traditional folk medicine, which has inspired intensive nutritional study in recent decades.

In fact, in European folk medicine pumpkin is acknowledged as a potent remedy in the treatment of respiratory and digestive ailments.

For thousands of years coconut products have held a respected and valuable place in local folk medicine.

The extract has also been used in folk medicine to treat high blood pressure and liver disorder.

On the other hand, traditional folk medicine uses parsley as a treatment for postpartum women.

In European folk medicine, cabbage was made into a paste to relieve inflammation.

Milk thistle has been an important natural remedy for centuries of folk medicine practitioners.

Beet «s roots and leaves have been used in folk medicine for many years to treat a wide variety of ailments.

Hibiscus tea has been used for thousands of years as folk medicine in various cultures around the world.

«Chile is used as an amulet, probably because of its well - known protective pharmacological properties, and in religious ceremonies, witchcraft, and conjuring; its fiery potency is considered a powerful means to any end,» observed Beatrice Roeder, author of Chicano Folk Medicine from Los Angeles, California.

This self - taught botanical historian and highly trained herbalist is resurrecting island folk medicine while saving many of Curaçao's native plants at Den Paradera, her sprawling garden preserve.

These last three plants have been extensively used in Japanese and Chinese folk medicine for their health properties (laxative, anti-arteriosclerosis, anticancer).

While folk medicine regards it as a natural approach for supporting the body against a wide range of issues, its ability to aid and soothe the urinary tract is more than folklore.

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.

After giving birth, Guatemalan Indian women use a drink of chile powder and water as purge, and in African folk medicine, a poultice is made from the ground chile pods, kaolin, and bark of Newbouldia laevis as a postpartum medication.

Around A.D. 400, Chinese ships carried live ginger plants growing in ceramic pots, probably because eating the rhizomes eased seasickness — a common use in folk medicine today.

(TRM) in most of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (see sidebar on the World Health Organization?s definition of CAM and TRM), these systems include folk medicine (i.e., traditional Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurvedic medicine, and Unani medicine from the Middle East), herbal medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathy, homeopathy, iridology, and massage therapy, to name a few.

A review article from Mexico and Jamaica on the use of guava in folk medicine highlights its fame for fighting diarrhea due to its antimicrobial abilities.

Folk medicine values beets and beet kvass for their liver cleansing properties and beet kvass is widely used in cancer therapy in Europe.

Now research is catching up with folk medicine.

Used as a home remedy for various ailments since the 1950's popular book Folk Medicine promoted its benefits, apple cider vinegar is taking the alternative medicine world by storm.

Folk medicine says this vitamin C - rich juice may even dissolve kidney stones, yet science remains inconclusive on these claims.

She trains yoga teachers and wellness experts how to accelerate the wellness path of their clients with 10 habits from Ayurveda, the ancient folk medicine from India and sister - science of Yoga.

An Appalachian folk medicine revivalist, avid forager, and a talented apothecary Lauren Haynes is the woman behind the Chattanooga based Wooden Spoon Herbs, her line of handmade & foraged teas, bitters, oils, salves, lotions, and all manner of other goods.

Only THE most talked - about «natural remedy» in Folk medicine ever — Apple Cider Vinegar!

In Europe, folk medicine healers used the sap of grapevines for skin and eye diseases.

Packed with Omega - 3 and Omega - 6 essential fatty acids, these earthy - sweet seeds offer plenty of health benefits, so it's easy to see why they have been widely used in Indian folk medicine for centuries.

Traditional folk medicine touts pumpkin seeds as an effective treatment for prostate enlargement.

Rehmannia glutinosa, or simply rehmannia root, is an herb used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine and other traditional folk medicines because of its powerful healing properties.

Next on the list is valerian (Valeriana officinalis), a plant that's been used for centuries in folk medicine around the world for its sedative and calming properties.

Used in traditional Chinese medicine and Russian and Korean folk medicine for hundreds of years, eleuthero could support stamina, endurance, and overall wellbeing.

Modern science is rediscovering the values of such old folk medicine.

Kiwi fruit has been traditionally trusted in the Chinese folk medicine for their effectiveness in healing various types of cancers such as liver cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer and lung cancer.

Manuka honey health benefits have been touted in the natural health world for a long time and even more in recent years because a growing body of research is starting to support thousands of years of folk medicine use.

Barberry is noted in folk medicine as a cure for nearly every gastrointestinal ailment, lymphatics, urinary tract and respiratory infection.

Elle DeGeneres also did one, in which she suggested that McConaughey might have been assisted in his deep thoughts by an increasingly popular type of folk medicine:

When whooping cough hits the McAllen family at a time when the bridge is out, racists Henry and Pappy are forced to accept help from Florence, a midwife trained in folk medicine.

I ran across many instances of open wounds treated by chile powder to stop bleeding, and chile leaves are generally regarded in folk medicine to be antibiotic.

More serious diseases than colds have also been treated with chile pepper concoctions in folk medicine.

But headaches are not the only head ailment treated by chiles as a folk medicine: the Mayas applied chile powder to the head to cure vertigo, and chiles are consumed to relieve the effects of stroke in the Peruvian Amazon.

Folk medicine is rich with tales of the nut's healing powers.

In folk medicine, chiles have long been reputed to heal ulcers.

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

Succinic Acid has been used by Europeans for centuries as a folk medicine.

In folk medicine, rosemary has been associated with having a good memory.

Moreover, folk medicine has played a substantial role in the development of modern pharmacology.