0 traditional medicine that is based especially on the use of plants instead of modern scientific principles
The leaves are used for cattle feed, and in folk medicine as heart tonic and as treatment for disentery, diabetes, and jaundice.
Proteases have also been used by proponents of alternative therapies, or identified in materials of traditional or folk medicine.
At the same time, folk medicine in the home and village continued uninterrupted, supporting numerous wandering and settled herbalists.
In folk medicine, it was used as a sedative, anti-rheumatic and for gout.
Various species also have been used widely in 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.
The eggs are known to be collected by practitioners of folk medicine.
The efficacy and safety of bearberry treatment in humans remains unproven, despite long-term use in folk medicine.
