Sentences with phrase «of folk medicine»

When I first became interested in natural foods, I turned to Adelle Davis and D. C. Jarvis of Folk Medicine fame.

This herbal product may include formalized aspects of folk medicine and it show longstanding remedies.

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

The mix of lemon, ginger and garlic has been known for its healing properties many centuries ago and used in Russia and Tibet as part of their folk medicine.

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:

The group exhibition, named after the botánica shops in San Fransisco's Mission District which offer a variety of folk medicines and medicinal herbs, is on display at Berggruen Gallery from July 13 — August 19, 2017.

Not exact matches

On this analogy, the relation between scientific theories of perception and the experience of the «withness of the body» would be like the relation of scientific psychology and scientific medicine to folk - psychology and folk - medicine.

Some people are unable to get medicine they need to survive, while older folks may be trapped in their homes with no way of communicating with the outside world.

However, regardless of whether «holistic medicine» means to you the broader movement or the questionable fringe, the fact is that it has helped re-establish what many folks never forgot: that if we limit our attention to the strictly physical aspects of a person's health, we limit our ability to adequately treat many physical conditions.

But I work in medicine with lots of old folks where I see this constantly:

We have traced the mental element through primitive medicine and folk - medicine of to - day, patent medicine, and witchcraft.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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

Which points to something one of the SBM folks wrote the other day: «In my experience» is one of the most dangerous phrases in medicine.

I work in a profession (not medicine) in which a lot of average folks consider themselves experts.

(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.

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

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).

Although Ebola outbreaks are relatively rare — fewer than 1000 cases have been reported worldwide — the virus poses a widespread threat, as Thomas Folks of the CDC points out in a commentary accompanying the paper in Nature Medicine.

According to the science, the energy boosting properties of bee pollen are inconclusive, and mostly rely on the use of bee pollen in folk medicines.

Taking the blood thinner warfarin or using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen can lead to easy bruising, especially in older folks who are frequent users of these medicines.

One study published in Archives of Internal Medicine found that folks who eat chocolate five times a week have a lower BMI and are about 6 pounds lighter than those who don't eat any.

A year ago I heard a historian of medicine talk about folk practice in Great Britain.

Terry: Because I'm also a researcher and I write grants, get funding, do clinical trials, and every year, we have 2 research days, one for the Department of Medicine and one for the College of Medicine, where my lab presents our data, and so my colleagues have seen the progress with other progressive MS folks and the remarkable results that we are showing.

Most of the traditional uses come from folk medicines and word of mouth in certain traditions around the world.

You'll also see a lot of folks returning to medicine ball exercises for use in their interval training.

For many centuries folk lore medicine has recommended the use of castor oil, either orally or transdermally for a wide range of complaints.

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.

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.

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

Sue spends most of her free time in the study of Natural Medicine and Homeopathy with her main focus being on Proper Nutrition, Essential Oils and Classical Homeopathy, and in visiting with folks that hope to benefit from the curative powers of such.

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

The leaves of the olive plant (Olea europaea L.) have been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat diabetes (28).

Regardless of the reasons for the negative outcome in this study, it doesn't negate the positive outcomes of the other 10 studies and centuries of use in folk medicine.

Ashitaba is a member of the angelica family ~ renown for its lineage as a potent anti-aging and beauty food in Japanese Folk and Oriental Medicine.

An improved immune system: Folks who flowed for 90 minutes once a week for 12 weeks had higher antioxidant levels and stronger immune function, per research in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

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

The Medicine Ball is always referenced on Instagram when folks are sick (great job marketing that, Starbs), and eventually my curiosity got the best of me and I pulled through the drivethru to ask about this weird Medicine thing.

It is the cinematic equivalent of a folk tale, charged with superstition, folk medicine, tall tales, wakes, ribald dialogue, holy fools, anthropomorphism, local costume, and pagan energies.

It's hell though, for the folks in A Quiet Place — New England farmers (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) who, on day 89 of the alien plague, are scavenging for food and medicine and useful items in a deserted rural town.