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Healers --- Inquisition --- Traditional medicine --- Traditional medicine
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Herbal Medicine: Back to the Future compiles expert reviews on the application of herbal medicines (including Ayurveda, Chinese traditional medicines and alternative therapies) to treat different ailments. The book series demonstrates the use of sophisticated methods to understand traditional medicine, while providing readers a glimpse into the future of herbal medicine. This volume presents reviews of plant based therapies useful for treating different infectious diseases. The list of topics includes some niche reviews in this area including a review of the neem plant, the historical use of herbs in infectious disease therapy in Russia, and natural remedies from garlic, among other topics., The topics included in this volume are: - Improving anti-microbial activity of allicin and carvacrol through stabilized analogs and nanotechnology - Plant phenolics as an alternative source of antimicrobial compounds - Herbal medicine in Russia's history: the use of herbal medicine for infectious diseases in Russia's history - Azadirachta indica (neem) in various infectious diseases - Contribution of novel delivery systems in the development of phytotherapeutics This volume is essential reading for all researchers in the field of natural product chemistry and pharmacology. Medical professionals involved in internal medicine who seek to improve their knowledge about herbal medicine and alternative therapies for tropical and other infectious diseases will also benefit from the contents of the volume.
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This publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) provides benchmarks for the practice of tuina, a form of traditional Chinese manual therapy. It aims to offer guidelines for practitioners, ensuring safe and effective practices within integrated health services. The document is part of WHO's effort to support countries in achieving universal health coverage and Sustainable Development Goals by integrating traditional medicine into national health systems. It includes standards for procedures, safety, and facilities related to tuina, and emphasizes the importance of regulation and quality assurance. The intended audience includes health policy makers, practitioners, and educators in traditional and complementary medicine.
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Traditional medicine. --- Medicine, Chinese --- History. --- Traditional medicine & herbal remedies.
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In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle Kananoja focuses on African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike. The mobility and circulation of healing techniques and materials was an important feature of the early modern Black Atlantic world. African healing specialists not only crossed the Atlantic to the Americas, but also moved within and between African regions to offer their services. At times, patients, Europeans included, travelled relatively long distances in Africa to receive treatment. Highlighting cross-cultural medical exchanges, Kananoja shows that local African knowledge was central to shaping responses to illness, providing a fresh, global perspective on African medicine and vernacular science in the early modern world.
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"In Sharing the Burden of Sickness, Jonathan Roberts examines the history of the healing cultures in Accra, Ghana. When people are sick in Accra, they can pursue a variety of therapeutic options. West African traditional healers, spiritual healers from the Islamic and Christian traditions, Western clinical medicine, and an open marketplace of over-the-counter medicine provide ample means to promote healing and preventing sickness. Each of these healing cultures had a historical point of arrival in the city of Accra, and Roberts tells the story of how they intertwined and how patients and healers worked together in their struggle against disease. By focusing on the medical history of one place, Roberts details how urban development, colonization, decolonization, and independence brought new populations to the city, where they shared their ideas about sickness and health. Sharing the Burden of Sickness explores medical history during important periods in Accra's history. Roberts not only introduces readers to a wide range of ideas about health but also charts a course for a thoroughly pluralistic culture of healing in the future, especially with the spread of new epidemics of HIV/AIDS and ebola"--
Medicine --- Traditional medicine --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- Ghana --- Ghana.
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An important record of ancient fishing traditions along Britain's coastal fringes, now rapidly dying out.
Atlantic herring fisheries --- Atlantic salmon fisheries --- Traditional fishing --- History.
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Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present features the proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société Canadienne pour les Traditions Musicales (formerly the Canadian Folk Music Society / La Société canadienne de musique folklorique) that took place in November, 2006 in Ottawa at Carleton University and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. This publication showcases the diversity of music research currently being conducted by folk and traditional music specialists, ethnomusicologists, and practicing musicians in Canada. The papers are organized in five sections according to common themes in contemporary research in ethnomusicology and folk music studies, and each section is preceded by a short introduction which highlights the section's theme(s) as well as the individual papers. Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present confirms the rich history of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, a history that comprises enormous changes in scholarly research, musical practice, emergent technologies, changes in doing fieldwork, and shifting identity boundaries over the past fifty years. This volume is intended as a contribution to published literature on ethnomusicological and folklore research in Canada, creating a new resource of historical, contemporary, and scholarly relevance that will appeal to academics and music enthusiasts alike. "Canadian ethnomusicologists' expertise in the realm of First Nations musics, and Anglo, Celtic and French folksong repertories is already well established. This volume shows us the breadth of cultural territory with which 21st-century Canadian scholars of music and scholars of Canadian musics are now engaged, as well as their theoretical and methodological sophistication. "--Kati Szego, School of Music, Memorial University.
Ethnomusicology --- Folk music --- Canadian Society for Traditional Music
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"This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribution of Islam and the mixed heritage influences of Middle Eastern, Andalusian and Berber cultures. It provides a thorough examination of historical resource management practices in Morocco, tracing the changing patterns from the instillation of agrarian capitalism in the 19th Century, through the Protectorate years (1912-1956), to the 21st Century. The book then explains how reviving and modernizing traditional methods of water management provides simple, accessible and successful methods for addressing 21st Century challenges, such as water scarcity and climate change. The work concludes by highlighting how these indigenous practices can be used to provide real-world practical solutions for improving water governance and therefore developing sustainable water management practices. Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge and sustainable development"--
Traditional ecological knowledge --- Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Management.
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Study covers medicinal plants in eleven villages of Chandel, Tengnoupal, and Senapati districts of Manipur, India.
Medicinal plants --- Ethnobotany --- Maring (Indic people) --- Traditional medicine --- Medicine
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