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The healthcare provider and a three-step approach to patients using aboriginal medicine Amid such a background including tension ...

immigrants. No health tradition is entirely static, and it is clear that infor- mation was often consciously shared so that it i ...

leaves (compare Joe’s remarks in the opening quote to the chapter). Other aspects of a regimen may be important such as changing ...

Such levels are generally along the lines, from top to bottom, of meta- analyses of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), systema ...

Alder Alder has been chosen because it was the subject of a question to a general practitioner in 2003, a type of query that mig ...

and headache’. However, citing Moerman’s work to support any specific usage needs a critical appraisal of the sources of informa ...

asked practitioners about how it was used by their people before modern natural healthcare products marketed it in capsules. Saf ...

conventional and domestic medicine. Recently compiled lists of uses by, for example, North Carolina Cherokees continue to reflec ...

A key issue is the popular concepts of disease. These – often relating to the causative agents acting from both outside and with ...

a trend toward maturation of vaginal epithelium, persist in raising the question of whether black cohosh acts somehow like estro ...

demands reflection on one’s own attitudes as well as an appreciation of the nature of the main ceremonies (step 1). It is certai ...

mutually held beliefs between practitioner and patient, a patient’s trust, elements of hope and other factors with a potential t ...

construction made connections to the spirit world or to the traditions and values of the past, e.g. starting from the east, sear ...

there is evidence to indicate that it persists in a fairly strong oral tradition in the Conne River community today.^34 Clinical ...

not uncommon and should be a salutary reminder that cultural issues surrounding death extend to all peoples. I seriously believe ...

uncertainties surrounding efficacy and safety issues due to pharmacologi- cally active constituents in herbal preparations. It i ...

Montreal: McGill Queens Press, 1994. Nevertheless many ceremonies are primarily indigenous, e.g. ‘The way the peyote ceremony is ...

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. Available from: http://www.naturaldatabase. com/(S(rwdt5xm035hbik55dg4fkzf0))/home.as ...

study. Menopause2006; 13 :185–96. Relevant, too, a study indicating a small stimulating effect on the growth of the MCF-7 breast ...

In this evolving world with its accelerated transformations, the indigenous traditional medical systems in Colombia are currentl ...