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Folk medicine

Folk medicine

treatment of ailments outside of organised medicine by remedies and simple measures based upon experience and knowledge handed on from generation to generation.


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citrus fruits and size of breasts

If there has been a folk-medicine suggestion for citrus in early pregnancy to combat morning sickness, it might have been linked to ...

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by Darby
Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:51 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: citrus fruits and size of breasts
Replies: 4
Views: 2281

Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)

... ideas of racial classificaton are based exclusively on 19th century folk taxonomic principles that rarely at all correspond with modern day scientific ... evidence that race can act as a surrogate for genetic constitution in medicine or public health? Our answer is no. Race, at the continental ...

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by TruthIsHoly
Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:46 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Brain size=IQ level theory (Blacks vs Whites & Asians)
Replies: 45
Views: 173792

Re: plant attack

You best invest in some Chinese folk medicine books.

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by mith
Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:39 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: plant attack
Replies: 5
Views: 2182


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