Examples of folk medicine

• Saffron is also esteemed in local folk medicine as a treatment for many ailments, especially skin problems.

• Chiropractic's origins lie in the folk medicine of bonesetting, and as it evolved it incorporated vitalism, spiritual inspiration and rationalism.

• Kop's population engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, carpentry, blacksmithing, shoe making, pottery, sewing, folk medicine and bakery.

• In pharmacognosy, folk medicines are first tested in clinical trials for efficacy.

• Classifications based on race into ' folk medicine ' versus ' indigenous medicine ' are based on teleological dichotomy.

• Mushrooms consumed by those practicing folk medicine are known as medicinal mushrooms.

• The tea from its bark or leaves is used in the local folk medicine against diarrhoea and as gargle for throat infections.

• The efficacy and safety of bearberry treatment in humans remains unproven, despite long-term use in folk medicine.

• The eggs are known to be collected by practitioners of folk medicine.

• Boneset, although poisonous to humans and grazing livestock, has been used in folk medicine, for instance to excrete excess uric acid which causes gout.

• Various species also have been used widely in folk medicine.

• In folk medicine, it was used as a sedative, anti-rheumatic and for gout.

• At the same time, folk medicine in the home and village continued uninterrupted, supporting numerous wandering and settled herbalists.

• Proteases have also been used by proponents of alternative therapies, or identified in materials of traditional or folk medicine.

• The leaves are used for cattle feed, and in folk medicine as heart tonic and as treatment for disentery, diabetes, and jaundice.