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Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plants in South-Western Part of Lithuania

Plants, 2022
Changes in people’s dependence on the resources of the immediate natural environment and in the ways in which information is transmitted may result in the loss of some of the traditional knowledge of plants and their uses.
Birutė Karpavičienė
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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Utilization of Traditional Medicine among the Communities of Debre Tabor Town, Amhara Regional State, North Central Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2020
Background Traditional medicine is used by about 80% of the Ethiopian people to meet their healthcare needs. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of the community on traditional medicine in Debre Tabor town. Methods A
Tezera Jemere Aragaw, Dessie Tegegne Afework, K. A. Getahun   +2 more
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Thapsigargin—From Traditional Medicine to Anticancer Drug

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020
A sesquiterpene lactone, thapsigargin, is a phytochemical found in the roots and fruits of Mediterranean plants from Thapsia L. species that have been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat rheumatic pain, lung diseases, and female infertility ...
Agata Jaskulska, A. Janecka, Katarzyna Gach-Janczak   +2 more
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Network medicine framework reveals generic herb-symptom effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine [PDF]

Science Advances, 2022
Understanding natural and traditional medicine can lead to world-changing drug discoveries. Despite the therapeutic effectiveness of individual herbs, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) lacks a scientific foundation and is often considered a myth.
Xiaohui Gan, Zixin Shu, Xinyan Wang, D. Yan, Jun Yu Li, Shany Ofaim, R'eka Albert, Xiaodong Li, Baoyan Liu, Xuezhong Zhou, Albert-L'aszl'o Barab'asi   +10 more
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Biopiracy versus one-world medicine – from colonial relicts to global collaborative concepts [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Practices of biopiracy to use genetic resources and indigenous knowledge by Western companies without benefit-sharing of those, who generated the traditional knowledge, can be understood as form of neocolonialism.Hypothesis: : The One-World ...
Abdelfatah, Sara, Abu-Darwish, Mohammad Sanad, Banerjee, Mita, Bhakta-Guha, Dipita, Bockers, Madeleine, Bolzani, Vanderlan, Daak, Salah, Dawood, Mona, Demirezer, Omur Lutfiye, Efferth, Monika, Efferth, Thomas, El-Seedi, Hesham R., Fischer, Nicolas, Greten, Henry J., Hamdoun, Sami, Hong, Chunlan, Horneber, Markus, Kadioglu, Onat, Khalid, Hassan E., Khalid, Sami A., Kuete, Victor, Mahmoud, Nuha, Marin, José, Mbaveng, Armelle, Midiwo, Jacob, Nakagawa, Hiroshi, Naß, Janine, Ngassapa, Olipa, Ochwang, Dominic, Omosa, Leonida K., Ooko, Edna A., Paramasivan, Poornima, Paul, Norbert W., Rodriguez Romero, Marta, Saeed, Elfatih M., Saeed, Mohamed E.M., Salgueiro, Ligia, Seo, Ean-Jeong, Yan, Ge, Yasin, Zahir, Özenver, Nadire   +40 more
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Editorial: Network Pharmacology and Traditional Medicine

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
1 MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, TCM-X Centre/Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2 State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences ...
Xinxing Lai, Xin Wang, Yuanjia Hu, S. Su, Wenqing Li, Shao Li   +5 more
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The governance of traditional medicine and herbal remedies in the selected local markets of Western Kenya

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background A lot of emphasis is often placed on modern governance systems and little or no attention is given to traditional governance practices which remain largely undocumented.
Willy Kibet Chebii, J. Muthee, K. Kiemo
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Examining the Association Between Traditional and Mainstream Medicine and the Prevalence of Arthritis in the Urban Indigenous Population Living in Toronto [PDF]

, 2020
Background: In the Indigenous community, the prevalence of arthritis is 1.3 to 1.6 times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Moreover, minimal population health information on urban Indigenous peoples is available.
Chen, Julio Cristian
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Bibliometric analysis of trends and issues in traditional medicine for stroke research: 2004–2018

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2020
Background Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Over the years, traditional medicines for stroke treatment have undergone tremendous progress, but few bibliometric studies have been performed.
Lieyu Huang, Xuefeng Shi, Nan Zhang, Ya Gao, Qian Bai, Liming Liu, Ling Zuo, Baolin Hong   +7 more
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Traditional medicine use in Timor-Leste

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2020
Background Traditional medicine use is common amongst peoples in developing nations. Timor-Leste is no exception. However little is known about the prevalence, pattern, satisfaction with, cost or type of traditional medicine used in Timor-Leste.
Robert F Grace, Jacinto Vaz, Julianti Da Costa   +2 more
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