Most of the plants used (83%) were native to Peru. Fresh plants, often collected wild, were used in two thirds of all cases, and the most common applications included the ingestion of herb decoctions or the application of plant material as poultices. Background Traditional Medicine is used g...
2). This is understandable, as the use of herbal medicine is widespread in Indonesia [24, 150], and therapeutic properties are also a more pronounced motivation for consuming wild edible plants in other cultures [3, 65]. Additionally, personal factors or subjective reasons, such as taste ...
ML Tan - 《Manila Philippines Health Action Information Network Oct》 被引量: 13发表: 0年 What do hospital staff in the UK think are the causes of penicillin medication errors? of respondents considered that misinformation or lack of knowledge on which antibiotics contain penicillin medicines was ...
Traditional herbal medicine is popular in Southeast and East Asia, particularly in the Philippines. Among the most widely utilized herbal remedies in this ... Alexander Carlo S. Castro,Brianne M. Austria,John Sylvester B. Nas - Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine...
herbal medicineshypertensionPhilippinespreventionstroke burdenBased on disability-adjusted life-years, stroke is the second leading cause of death and among the top five diseases with the greatest burden. Although two community-based studies have been conducted to determine the prevalence of stroke in ...
enters the flesh, the teeth prevent it from coming out, gradually works its way farther in. Injury in cattle & horses, but esp. dangerous to sheep. Most trouble from feeding hay containing large amts. of this grass, in mangers which force the sheep to put their muzzles in the mass of...
not medicine. Planted in the corner of a rice-field to protect the crop; Besisi plant it round the edges of graves. Besisi use ornaments made of it at weddings. Chinese herbalists stock it. The citral in Lemon-grass oil from this & C. nardus can be converted into ionine, artificial...
Hence, using coconut oil can help change that microbial balance for the better over the long term. Countries that consume high amounts of coconut and coconut oil in their diets such as the Philippines, India, and the Pacific Islands have significantly fewer cases of heart disease and obesity....
More recently, at the turn of the century, various plant extracts were used in folk medicine as sunscreens. One of the most effective was a chestnut extract from which aesculin was derived (1911). Later, several chemicals were introduced as UV filters, such as 2-naphthol-6,8-disulfonic ...
[17] on addictive behaviors among adolescents from 73 low- and middle-income households found that the prevalence of substance use in Asian countries was high among adolescents, especially in non-Muslim countries such as Laos, the Philippines, and Thailand compared with countries with majority-...