(1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(2) While interest in herbal therapy is clearly increasing in Western countries, there are few available data about hepatotoxicity of herbal remedies.
(3) (2) Controlling infection was the key point, effective antibiotics and hormone should be added besides these herbal medicines for clearing away heat and toxic materials.
(4) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
(5) The home secretary, Theresa May , has defied her own expert advisers and banned qat, a mild herbal stimulant that is traditionally used by Britain's Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian communities.
(6) Twenty-seven patients with malignant lymphoma (14 Hodgkin's disease, 9 histiocytosarcoma, 2 plasmacytoma, 2 lympholeucosarcoma) were treated by Ailin-injection plus Chinese herbal medicine.
(7) The inhibitory effects of a prescription of herbal medicine, tentatively named P-3, were studied pathologically in an experimental model of the glomerular lesion induced by purified snake Agkistrodon acutus venom proteinase (Ac1-P) in mice.
(8) The legal status for herbal remedies is defined by the Drug Law of 24 August 1976 in the version of the forth law amending of April 1990.
(9) The authors' traditional Chinese herbal prescription, Qiang Zhuang Ling, was used to treat childhood anorexia with Spleen deficiency.
(10) To conclude, the lack of legislative control in Hong Kong over Chinese herbal medicines is highlighted.
(11) In the case of some of the test parameters, a positive tendency in favor of the herbal ointment was observed.
(12) Anti-EBV antibody titers were elevated in herbal medicine users compared to nonusers among cases but not among control subjects.
(13) She was also a practitioner of herbal medicine, producing remedies on request for doctors at the local hospital.
(14) Factors contributing to fatal outcome included inadequate dose of antivenom (15 cases), misidentification of the snake leading to use of the wrong antivenom (12), problems associated with mechanical ventilation (10), and delayed arrival in hospital after traditional (herbal) treatment (10).
(15) Twenty-six herbal preparations made from 24 medicinal herbs, categorized as antipyretics in Chinese materia medica, were tested in vitro to determine their effects upon phagocytosis of 32P-labelled Staphylococcus aureus by neutrophils isolated from bovine blood and milk.
(16) An ancient system of natural medicine--Maharishi Ayur-Vedic--prescribes certain herbal formulas to enhance cognitive functioning, prevent illness, and alleviate the detrimental effects of the aging process.
(17) Naive boy from the country moves to the big city and things go wrong.” We are drinking herbal tea and eating (very tasty) vegetables in Moby’s newly opened vegan restaurant in blue-skied Los Angeles.
(18) He had recently returned from a trip to India where he had been taking two different herbal tonics.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Herbal tinctures by Duchy Originals, the Prince of Wales’s company.
(20) A concentration series, (0.005 to 10% solution in saline), of various potential irritants (phosphate detergent, baby shampoo, liquid chlorine bleach, herbal shampoo, onion juice, SDS, and sodium chloride) was applied directly to the cornea of the anesthetized rabbit.
Herbalist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(2) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(3) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
(4) A rural area of Bangladesh with a population of 191,000 had 643 health care providers, of whom 324 (50%) practiced allopathic (Western) medicine, 152 (24%) were spiritualists, 109 (17%) were herbalists, and 58 (9%) were homeopaths.
(5) The medicines employed by herbalists are not usually therapeutic in the physical sense.
(6) The status and role of the female herbalist are described.
(7) Half of the indigenous faith healers and more than half of the babalawos we interviewed attributed non-congenital deafness to malevolent forces, while only 12.5% of the herbalists made this attribution.
(8) Several years of observation of prescription habits of herbalists in Singapore have brought to the surface the use of certain herbs which form the core of different prescriptions.
(9) Traditional medical persons were, for instance, herbalists, diviners, spiritual or faith healers, traditional midwives, and birth attendants, who worked well with other staff and were willing to contribute to PHC.
(10) People treat themselves before resorting to the herbalist, the clinic nurse or the general practitioner (GP).
(11) This paper calls attention to the need for further biochemical investigations into the plant constituents and invites collaboration in the development of clinical field studies to assess the efficacy of herbalists' use of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes in Baja California Norte or other U.S.-Mexico border areas.
(12) A survey of myrtaceous plants used in traditional medicine in rural areas of eastern Paraguay was undertaken to identify the constituents of crude drugs traded by herbalists.
(13) While the majority of the herbalists prescribed a herbal ear drop, a majority of the babalawos and the indigenous faith healers prescribed sacrifices to appease the aggrieved parties.
(14) Practitioners in Zimbabwe as in Nigeria include spirit mediums, diviners, herbalists, midwives, and faith healers.
(15) While practicing medicine in a nonritual way Warao herbalists are nevertheless directly aligned with the Mother of the Forest.
(16) In the course of his treatment by a herbalist who had undertaken to cure his disability, a mildly spastic retarded four-year-old child was immersed in a heap of fermenting horse manure for 40 minutes.
(17) Discernible among the diversity of folk-medical practitioners of Songkhla, Thailand, are three prominent therapeutic traditions: those of the herbalists, folk psychotherapists, and supernaturalists.
(18) Other reasons given include preference for prayer houses or spiritual healing homes in 291 patients (13.5%) a belief that the lesion was inflammatory in 183 (8.5%), preference for native doctors or herbalists in 497 (23.1%) and economic reasons in 220 (10.2%).
(19) Though most herbalists agree that neither variety should be taken while pregnant or breastfeeding (due to lack of data), some are perplexed that echinacea is deemed unsuitable for asthmatics, diabetics and anyone with an auto-immune disease such as multiple sclerosis.
(20) Most of the clients receiving MR services were ever and current users of contraceptives and developed fewer complications from MR procedures than those served by untrained traditional herbalists, healers or birth attendants.