Traditional folk medicine poses a significant threat to the future of over 100 primate species around the world, scientists say.
Half of all wild dog species such as jackals, foxes and wolves are harvested for traditional folk medicines, scientists warn.
... Materials (SRMs) for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight ... ’s (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) affirms that “there is not enough scientific evidence ...
Researchers from McGill University's Faculty of Medicine have discovered a compound that reduces resistance to chemotherapy agents ... , South China and some Pacific islands. It has been used in Malaysian folk medicine for generations, but never as a cancer therapy ...
... researcher, Klaus Linde of the Centre for Complementary Medicine in Munich, Germany. Extracts of the plant Hypericum ... known as St. John's wort, have long been used in folk medicine to treat depression and sleep disorders ...
... . Capsaicin creams are natural pain-relieving folk medicines, commonly found over the counter, and are effective for a variety ... of Physiology and Biophysics in the University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, appear Feb. 24 ...
... , and other foods -- may live up to its age-old reputation in folk medicine as a health promoter. They are reporting new evidence that vinegar can help prevent accumulation of body ...
... , and other foods -- may live up to its age-old reputation in folk medicine as a health promoter. They are reporting new evidence that vinegar can help prevent accumulation of body ...
Kudzu extracts have been used in Chinese folk medicine to treat alcoholism for about 1,000 years. Daidzin is an anti-drinking substance in kudzu ...
... " plant as part of a larger study plants used in folk medicine in Vietnam. In the 16th and 17th centuries, some of the world's most celebrated scientists believed the plant (Cibotium ...
... . Past studies hinted that pumpkin, long used as folk medicine in some countries, might have antibiotic effects ... effects. The pumpkin protein could be developed into a natural medicine for fighting yeast infections in humans, the report ...
... , according to Ray. Because of these effects, the extract is commonly used in folk medicines as a remedy for diabetes in locales such as India, China and Central America, according to the researchers. Using human breast ...
... " plant as part of a larger study plants used in folk medicine in Vietnam. In the 16th and 17th centuries, some of the world's most celebrated scientists believed the plant (Cibotium ...
... is published May 19, 2010, in Science Translational Medicine, a new journal from the American Association for the Advancement ... the spice tumeric its yellow color. It has been used for centuries as a folk medicine in Asia and India. In this case, however ...
... of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences in developing new medicines for illnesses and conditions including infectious diseases ... contamination. "Beeglue is also a natural remedy widely-used in folk medicine for a variety of ailments but little has been known ...
