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The Sa Sangmedicine: four constitutional medicines proposed by Lee, Je Ma In Lee’s four constitutional medicines (FCM), humans a ...
allocated to modern life-science courses such as biochemistry, microbiology, anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, and the remai ...
than 100 herbal formulae have been developed in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam over a period of 2000 years. These formulae rang ...
away from the old-fashioned dosage forms, such as a large volume of water decoctions and large pills, to the modern dosage forms ...
Writing in plain English The Plain English Campaign 2006 This chapter considers the traditional approaches to sickness and healt ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 271 Finally it discusses some of the work that has been carried out more recently to sepa ...
272 | Traditional medicine Fiji and Samoa These are two small (groups of) islands in the South Pacific. Both were settled by the ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 273 Perceptions of health Indigenous people in each of the four countries discussed consi ...
274 | Traditional medicine cholera, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, mumps and measles. Nor did they experience li ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 275 popularly known as the toothache tree (Euoidia vitiflora). The wood of this tree has ...
276 | Traditional medicine The volatile oil of the eucalyptus plant (Figure 10.3) was then used for similar respiratory problems ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 277 to treat genitourinary diseases. Plants that grew close to water were thus used to tr ...
278 | Traditional medicine Present day Pharmaceutical companies have utilised Aboriginal knowledge in the devel- opment of a num ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 279 food and medicinally active species. Many of these are not specific to Fiji but are f ...
four-legged kava bowls, as well as canoes, clubs and other objects. It was considered to be a sacred tree so medicines prepared ...
external problems. Its stems and leaves are used to treat diarrhoea and urinary problems (just as were water-related Aboriginal ...
Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices banned its use in that country.^11 Other countries followed Germany’s lead, with the res ...
earliest settlers makes little reference to medicinal plants. What does seem clear, however, is the fact that, before the arriva ...
treat skin infections such as boils, styes and infected wounds. It has also been used to treat some respiratory and urinary trac ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 285 Present day Samoa is a very conservative country, one that places great importance on ...
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