Comfrey was used by herbalists to promote more rapid repair of broken bones, hence the common names boneset and knitbone. |
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The best known family of herbalists is that of TEARS, of Ballawhane, in Andreas, and, of bone-setters, that of CLUCAS, of the Strang, in Braddan. |
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The ancient Greek herbalists thought that plants belonging to this genus facilitated childbirth, hence the common name, birthwort. |
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Even those who have access to an infirmary or clinic may visit herbalists or other healers. |
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Traditional practitioners include herbalists, bone setters, diviners, and ritual specialists who may supplicate spirits or ancestors. |
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Most experienced herbalists take a base formula and customize it for the individual. |
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There are plenty of herbal books and practicing herbalists that can educate a layperson about contraindications. |
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For thousands of years herbalists have been using and prescribing herbs both singly as well as in complex formulas usually in the form of tea. |
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This lineage includes village healers, community midwives, and family herbalists. |
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Many people still consult native healers, including witch doctors, voodoo practitioners, and herbalists. |
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Ghana was chosen primarily for its rich historical and valued tradition of herbal medicine and for ease of access to practicing herbalists. |
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Today you can source soapwort from herbalists, some heath food stores and herb specialty shops, or purchase it mail order from Newton's Pharmacy. |
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Many herbalists believe that whole herbs have a synergistic action on your body that can't be replicated by one or two active ingredients. |
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Pharmaca's stores are staffed with naturopathic doctors, nurses, nutritionists, herbalists, homeopaths and aestheticians. |
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Lesser calamint was commonly used as a medicinal herb in medieval times, though is little used by modern herbalists. |
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In fact the ancient herbalists believed that fennel gave strength to the constitution and made fat people grow lean. |
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Southern African herbalists apply milk of the euphorbia to draw out deep-lying thorns and use wooden splints for broken limbs. |
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Maya folk medicine includes the ministrations of ritual healers called curanderos and female herbalists who may double as midwives. |
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If there was a problem with a hypersympathetic nervous system, Western herbalists have tended use sedatives, nervines and perhaps anti-inflammatories. |
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She used the knowledge passed on to her by indigenous Maori healers and herbalists. |
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A small number of western scientific studies in the past 20 years seemed to confirm what Chinese herbalists believed. |
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To relieve headache pain, herbalists recommend white willow bark. |
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The restorative properties of the peppermint and spearmint plant specifically, have fascinated herbalists and repelled insects for thousands of years. |
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Sandalwood oil was used traditionally by herbalists to treat skin diseases, acne, dysentery, gonorrhea, and a number of other conditions. |
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The head teacher at our school is Danièle Laberge, who is recognized as one of the rare experienced herbalists in Quebec. |
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Experts are herbalists, phytotherapists, botanists and ethnobotanists-people who work with, study and know about medicinal plants. |
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In Hawaii, he began his transformation into one of the nation's foremost herbalists, earning master's degrees in anthropology and ethnobotany. |
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Traditional Xhosa culture includes diviners, who serve as herbalists, prophets and healers for the community. |
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She began by studying with herbalists in the United States and with Amerindians. |
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All interviews took place at the practices of the traditional herbalists. |
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Mr. Keith Stelling: I think we have to explain that herbalists are usually idealists. |
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For herbalists and acupuncturists, the trick will be to turn respectable without becoming inflexible. |
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Among other well-known herbalists of those times were John Gerard, Conrad Gesner, and Gaspard Bauhin. |
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As well, physicians and pharmacists have questioned the efficacy of the diagnoses and remedies prescribed by many traditional Chinese herbalists. |
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Four women-run farms in Algeria use those plants and sell more to herbalists at market for profit. |
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Some natural products are developed by pharmaceutical laboratories, and others are developed by naturopaths or independent herbalists. |
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Majority of pregnant women visit herbalists and traditional birth attendants as opposed to government facilities and personnel. |
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Old-time herbalists dunked herbs in wine or liquor for this effect. |
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By the late 1600s, chemists and herbalists had begun to concoct their own scientific mixtures for curing the hangover. |
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Adventurous herbalists like to experiment with basil, oregano and rosemary, also including the more exotic plants like sweet woodruff, lemon grass and borage. |
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Traditional herbalists valued coriander, especially to counteract the stomach-upsetting properties of laxative herbs such as buckthorn, cascara, rhubarb and senna. |
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I would ask this industrial lobby, which has embarrassed many herbalists, are your own products so safe and legal? |
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Indigenous African religious practitioners included herbalists and diviners who attended to the spiritual needs and maladies of both individuals and communities. |
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For example, herbalists claimed that Peruvian bark cured malaria. |
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The fighting in South and Central region has adversely affected their ability to earn a livelihood as labourers, metalworkers, herbalists and hunters, their traditional occupation. |
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Along with these effects of deforestation, rural Liberia has also come to witness the loss of medicinal plants used by traditional herbalists for the treatment of various sicknesses. |
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This popularity puts herbalists and herbalism as a practice at a crossroads today. |
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The credentialing and certification of certain practitioners, such as herbalists, is particularly relevant to providing information and supporting informed choice in the use of natural health products. |
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Spices and aromas are sold by herbalists, apothecaries and ironmongers. |
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From the plants cultivated in these gardens, herbalists composed simple remedies with one plant, as opposed to more elaborate medical compositions. |
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It is likely that naturopaths and Western herbalists will be amongst the first of these professions considered for inclusion in the Scheme. |
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Four farms run by women committed to growing medicinal plants on their prime arable land in order to sell them to local herbalists, thereby improving their revenue. |
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We teach herbalism itself, and our courses are not just for people who are herbalists and who are able to recommend products, they're for everyone, for consumers too. |
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Traditional healers and herbalists are popular across west Africa. |
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Philippines: Local herbalists are said to steep locusts in coconut oil, and with the chanting of prayers in either the local dialect or in pidgin Latin, apply the oil to wounds and sprains as a way of facilitating healing. |
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The treatments depended largely on the belief that we are all compounds of hot, cold, wet and dry bodily humours: this was the basis of medicine from classical times, still used by herbalists and homeopaths. |
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Back in the spring of 1996, a group of small herbal manufacturers, who were very upset with the status quo, met with a group of herbalists at that time. |
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This non-drug realm includes practitioners who operate outside of the dominant paradigm: midwives, community healers, witches, sagefemmes, herbalists and many others. |
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The prevalence and experience of Australian naturopaths and Western herbalists working within community pharmacies. |
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There can be no doubt that its current reputation owes more to its use in cooking than to the therapeutic qualities attributed to it by herbalists and popular medicine. |
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It would be incorrect to claim that these are entirely distinct: herbalists can make use of spiritual assistance in their work, just as other healers may use herbs in their practices. |
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The debate between the Paracelsians and the herbalists continues. |
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The Callawaya herbalists traded in tropical plants between 6th and the 10th centuries, while copper was dealt by specialized merchants in the Peruvian valley of Chincha. |
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The disks of powdered mugwort called 'moxa' sold in Chinese shops and herbalists are used in Traditional Chinese medicine for moxibustion treatment. |
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The word adaptogen is used by herbalists to refer to a natural herb product that increases the body's resistance to stresses such as trauma, anxiety and bodily fatigue. |
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