Politically and diplomatically, Tibet was always within the Chinese sphere of action, but its modern annexation is an anomaly both of Tibetan and of (Han) Chinese history. In Ch'ing Dynasty China, there was an assignment of the five elements for each of the five peoples that were ...
A 30 year-old female elementary school teacher and rice farmer from northeast Laos was admitted to Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, with a massive growth on her left foot, without a history of trauma. The swelling had progressed slowly but painlessly over 5 years and multiple draining sinuses had...
Zootherapy, in the sense of traditional therapeutic uses of substances from the animal world emerged in the 1990s as a particular field of ethnomedicine and ethnopharmacology studies. Zootherapic practices involve the use of all kinds of animal matters including different animal body parts, secretions ...
A ¸¼¤¥×$ A I In 1928 the ‘city’ was home to just 9000 designations vary (eg route, rue, road and R O T 021 / pop 234,000 % N inhabitants – many of them Vietnamese ad- avenue) but the Lao script always s INFORMATION U N E HISTORY ministrators brought in by ...
Despite a widespread aversion towards faeces and urine, animal excreta are used in traditional medicine in many countries since centuries, but records are scattered and few therapeutic uses have been accurately documented while in the current context of
Despite a widespread aversion towards faeces and urine, animal excreta are used in traditional medi‑ cine in many countries since centuries, but records are scattered and few therapeutic uses have been accurately documented while in the current context of emerging zoonoses such records may be...