Eliseo Torres discusses his experience with curanderismo as both an academic and as a Mexican-American growing up in a small community where
folk medicine was a common cultural practice.
EOAz has shown efficacy as an antispasmodic agent in intestinal (Bezerra et al., 2000) and vascular smooth muscle and as an anti-hypertensive agent (Lahlou et al., 2002), effects consistent with its use in
folk medicine. Despite the popularity of A.
Folk medicine as a form of health care was once confined to rural populations, but its practice has now spread to urban populations, who are reportedly seeking alternatives to expensive modern medicines produced synthetically.
Honey, which has antioxidant and antimicrobial effects, has been used in
folk medicine for centuries to treat coughs - and help wounds heal.
Used in
folk medicine in several parts of the world, mainly in the east of Europe, propolis shows several biological properties, such as antimicrobial, anaesthetic, antioxidant, antitumoral, regenerative, immunomodulatory, among others.
Begun in 2000, the program is intended to fund examinations of systems of traditional knowledge such as the Indian system of Ayurveda, American Indian medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and Latin American
folk medicine with the goal of increasing the quality of clinical research evaluating the efficacy of such traditional, indigenous systems of medicine.
Peter Pritchard, the store's produce director, pointed out that strawberries were used in
folk medicine as a tonic and an aphrodisiac.
Jarvis (
Folk Medicine and Arthritis and
Folk Medicine) were best-selling health-related volumes.
They employed saponins extracted from the knots of Wistaria brachybotrys-agents long used in Japanese
folk medicine to fight cancer.
In Irish
folk medicine it was used to treat shingles (Herpes Zoster), kidney stones and parasitic intestinal worms.
Coupling these beneficial effects with its use in
folk medicine, N.