LAGUNDI Lagundi (scientific name: Vitex negundo) is a large native shrub that grows in the Philippines and has been traditionally used as herbal medicine. The Philippine Department of Health has conducted research and study for Lagundi and has suggested that the lagundi plant has a number verifiable therapeutic value Lagundi is an erect‚ branched tree or shrub‚ that grows to as much as 5 m high. Lagundi has a single thick‚ woody stem like a trunk and is usually seen in swamps of the Philippines
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Shaan Sarode Ms. Davis English IV – Per. 3 20 October 2010 Impact of Medieval Medicine Imagine when a friend gets sick or catches a “bug”‚ they may have two different reactions to it. The first is the realistic approach‚ which re-visits their recent actions and pinpoints the cause of the symptoms. The other is the non-realistic‚ which tends to blame supernatural causes. People during the medieval times almost always blamed the supernatural as the cause of these diseases. There were also many
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Hallucinogens as Medicine 1 Hallucinogens as Medicine Melody Gambino Psychology 101 Hallucinogens as Medicine 2 Abstract The article discusses research on the use of hallucinogens for medical therapies applicable to cancer‚ drug addiction‚ and psychological problems. Studies being undertaken at Johns Hopkins University are discussed. Johns Hopkins’ research on hallucinogens includes assessment of the drug’s psychospiritual effects among volunteers
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tribe there were shamans who would ‘exorcise ill people’ demons’ and apothecary. They had medicine men who were shamans and witch-doctors. They would provide supernatural treatments like charms‚ spells and amulets to ward off evil spirits. If someone was ill the medicine man would initiate a ceremony over the patient where they would use magic formulas prayers and drumming. People thought that the medicine men could contact the spirits or Gods so people looked up to them. They used healing clays
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Ayurveda (Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda‚ "the knowledge for long life"; /ˌaɪ.ərˈveɪdə/[2]) or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India‚[3] i.e.‚ in the mid-second millennium BCE. The Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā‚ encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE‚[4] are among the
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Regenerative medicine Regenerative medicine is the process of replacing or regenerating human cells‚ tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function. It can be used for many things by many different techniques. It can benefit many different people in many different ways. Regenerative medicine replaces/repairs tissues that the body cannot repair on its own. This includes things such as organs like kidneys; if one needs to be removed we may be able to replace/repair it. Regenerative
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Defensive Medicine Is It Costing Our Heath Care? Teresa Botts Baptist College of Health Sciences 1. Abstract Our Nation is currently engaged in a debate about the future of health care in America. Health care reform has several platforms to be addressed in order for it to be successfully implemented. Tort reform‚ being one of those platforms‚ is proposed as one solution to the rapidly increasing health care cost in the United States. Careful reform
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but became insane while in prison. "Medicine is supposed to heal people‚ not prepare them for execution; a law that asks doctors to make people well so that the government can kill them is an absurd law‚" said David Kaczynski‚ the executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty . There are many arguments in this passage. The first argument is this passage is “medicine is supposed to heal people‚ not prepare them for execution”. The premise is “medicine is supposed to heal people‚ not prepare
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led me into medicine at five year M.B.B.S program in one of the most prestigious medical Institute of Pakistan. During the third year of medical school‚ I was introduced to direct patient care during clinical rotations in various specialties‚ but unique nature of Internal Medicine appealed to me most. After my last year of medical school‚ I completed six months internship in Internal Medicine at an affiliated university hospital. My internship strengthened my knowledge of medicine and gave me
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Personalized Medicine Introduction to Biology This paper focuses on the representation of the personalized medicine and how the modern techno-scientific has lead for its evolution. Personalized medicine refers to contemporary techno-scientific advantages in modern medicine‚ such as vitro fertilization technologies‚ organ transplantation‚ stem cell therapy‚ complex life support technologies‚ etc. The point here is that these and related developments not only continue to stretch and design life
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