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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Herbalists"”.
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Knowledge preservation practices of herbalists in Uganda: an ethnographic study
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
… as possible. Throughout this work the voices of herbalists themselves have rarely been presented. Drawing from a biographic narrative approach to interviewing, along with supporting ethnographic methods, thirteen cases of individual herbalists are presented here. Eight out of the thirteen cases …
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The Enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
… as possible. Throughout this work the voices of herbalists themselves have rarely been presented. Drawing from a biographic narrative approach to interviewing, along with supporting ethnographic methods, thirteen cases of individual herbalists are presented here. Eight out of the thirteen cases …
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“Considering there’s supposedly nothing wrong with me, it’s not a life”: Women’s Narratives of Distress, Visiting Herbalists, and Being Well in the 21st Century
… with twenty-six women who were visiting herbalists for distress across the south-east of The United Kingdom to elicit their stories of distress, as well as their experiences of WHP. The narratives were analysed from a constructionist standpoint, using inductive thematic analysis. The …
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Re-presenting herbal medicine as phytotherapy: a strategy of professionalisation through the formation of a 'scientific' medicine
… of professionalisation. Data were gathered from herbalists' own statements that provided the answers to how? and why? this occurred. Whilst it is suggested that much science is heavily influenced by its social and cultural enviromnent, the tenacious portrayal of biomedicine as science is taken as …
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The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s
… by three groups of healers: domestic healers, herbalists and doctors. This thesis deploys the concept of translation to argue that different qualities were attributed to the same plant in response to the needs and approaches of domestic healers, herbalists and doctors, each of whom had …
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Female healers and the boundaries of medical practice in post-plague England
… issues to be addressed are: the importance of herbalists and wet nurses as unacknowledged health care practitioners, the social and medical significance of hospital sisters, the variety of services offered by midwives and female surgeons, and the images of women healers in literature and …
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Rastas on the road to healing: plant-human mobilities in Cape Town, South Africa
… ecosystems. On their transformational journeys, herbalists increase their plant knowledge, expand their secondary language capacity, learn to navigate multiple modes of transport, gain physical stamina and knowledge of the body, establish trade networks and build customer bases;; all of which …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… and the spaces of cultivation established by herbalists, doctors, and naturalists in the employ of the Apothecary (Medical) Chancellery and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In doing so it investigates how methods of botanical collection, including specific itineraries, influenced the …
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Acquisition, Distribution and Perspectives of Healthcare Information in Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM)
… over the Internet: advice offered by'medical herbalists' to a pregnant woman. * Reflexologists' responses to a patient with abdominal pain -a survey on Internet advice. * Internet advice by acupuncturists -a risk factor for cardiovascular patients? * Are asthma sufferers at risk when …
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Exploring the Role of Traditional Medicinal Practitioners in the use of Indigenous Knowledge Methods for the Treatment and Management of HIV/AIDS-related Symptoms: A Case Study of Keates the Drift Community in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal
… also indicated that diviners (Izangoma) and herbalists are the two categories of traditional medical practitioners found in the Keates Drift Community (Izinyanga). Additionally, traditional herbalists and diviners used medicinal herbs to treat and manage HIV/AIDS related illnesses. Notably, …
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Traditional healing in contemporary South Africa : perspective from traditional health practitioners in Vhembe District (Limpopo).
… from both BMPs and THPs of the category of herbalists which will lead to effective health service delivery to the patients.
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The role of traditional healers in oral health care in the Bui Division, North West Province, Cameroon
… males. Nearly a quarter of the THs practiced as herbalists and the remainder practiced both divination and herbalism. More than two thirds of Cameroonians, who patronize THs for their oral health needs, fall within the 20-40 year age group. THs in this region are experienced and enjoy good …
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Pills and Potions: A Study of Medical Retailing in Cardiff Between 1850 and 1900
… thrived and survived in the same market. Quacks, herbalists and other alternative medicine dealers fulfilled a service in Cardiff. They were a complex, popular and an often unpredictable entity in the local market. While their services were in demand by many townspeople, their presence infuriated …
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A public health conflict : traditional medicinal practise and the bio-medical health norms and values at a time of HIV and AIDS in Swaziland
… medical doctors and traditional healers and herbalists is a significant aspect of health seeking behaviours among the larger population in Swaziland (only 22% of Swaziland is urbanized). The people‟s attitude towards and reception of the states public health policies and public health …
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The Cardioprotective effect of a Lanosteryl Triterpene from Protorhus Longifolia on H9c2 Cardiomyoblasts
… cardiovascular complications. For decades, herbalists in the Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal have been using Protorhus longifolia as a blood-thinning agent. Recently, Mosa and colleagues have demonstrated that methyl-3β-hydroxylanosta-9,24-dien-21-oate (RA3) derived from the stem barks of …
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Social Sensory Somatic Scores for Species, Spaces, Soils, and Structures of Steep Slopes
… refugees, queers, witches, tricksters, artists, herbalists, and healers. The intended medium of SSSSSSSSSS coalesces in Ch.4: inviting the general public to participatory happenings with hills, composing scores, coaxing their inner slorgs to slither askew, sloping themselves as moving loci for …
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… visit diviners, shamans, spiritualistic herbalists, and the traditional medicine men and women who use enchantments, divination, charms, invocation of the spirit world, etc. They engage in such practices for various reasons which include, to diagnose and treat various ailments, both …
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Antibacterial activity of the crude extract and fractions of spirostachys africana against multi-drug resistant bacteria
… used successfully by traditional healers and herbalists to treat various infectious diseases for centuries. Currently, a few medicinal plants are commercialized, reason being most medicinal plants phytochemicals have not been studied yet, although they have been traditionally used by healers. …
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Investigation of cellular mechanisms underlying insulin-releasing or glucose-lowering effects of extracts of selected plants used in traditional medicinal practice for the management of diabetes
… and Nasarawa States of Nigeria through local herbalists. Selected plants materials were extracted using a Soxhlet extraction and water or ethanol or methanol as the solvent. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of phytochemical constituents of selected plant extracts were conducted prior to …
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