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New Zealand is home to about 1970 plant species, of which around 1600 are considered indigenous.^22 At least some of these plant ...
Traditional medicines in the Pacific | 287 Later visitors observed that plants were used during the treatment of many internal m ...
sprinkled with water and then covered with the plant(s) supposed to be efficacious in the treatment of the specific condition.30 ...
Its almost miraculous effect on George Nepia, an All Black rugby player whose leg had been so seriously damaged that it seemed t ...
Maoriby both Maori and non-Maori New Zealanders is ensuring that current knowledge is both stored and expanded. Traditional uses ...
Roth WE. Superstition, magic and medicine. North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin No. 5. Brisbane: Government Printer, 1903. Cit ...
Colenso, W. On the botany of the North Island of New Zealand. Trans Proc NZ Inst 1869;1(pt 3 – essays):1–58. 1875;233–83. Buck ...
11 Traditional Jewish medicine Kenneth Collins The Jewish people have always seen medicine and faith as inextricably linked.^1 T ...
a treatment for diarrhoea, high blood pressure, hair loss and pestilence during the following week.^3 The land of Israel was str ...
receptive to the Divine Message while David played on his harp to drive away the melancholy from King Saul.^4 Proverbs describes ...
We have seen the reference to the healing of King Hezekiah. However, one of Hezekiah’s acts, for which he was praised by the rab ...
Traditional Jewish medicine | 297 crocodile, they feature much less in lists of Jewish practical pharmacy. This is thought to be ...
298 | Traditional medicine Jerusalem Talmud, a shorter and less complete compendium produced in the land of Israel rather than i ...
places, damp and deserted houses, latrines, squalid lanes and foetid atmos- pheres, which obviously became associated with disea ...
endowed with the same four qualities – heat, cold, dryness and humidity. The four humours – blood, yellow and black bile, and ph ...
medical interest. Here, we see the attitudes of people, distressed by illness, to healing practices and what they had recourse t ...
major part in the lives of mediaeval Jews. They served as foodstuffs, herbs, cosmetics, condiments and incense as well as in hom ...
Traditional Jewish medicine | 303 Paavilainen records more than 100 different drugs used by Maimonides for the treatment of mela ...
in a poultice or by fumigation, and others that counteract the poison of creeping animals or deadly poison of beverages.^51 He w ...
attached to the concept of an ‘occult virtue’ which was inherent in a particular object. Nachmanides believed that King Solomon ...
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