folk medicine
51Suicide Medicine — Infobox Album | Name = Suicide Medicine Type = Album Artist = Rocky Votolato Released = September 2003 Recorded = January 2003 Genre = Folk Rock Length = 47:56 Label = Second Nature Recordings Producer = Rocky Votolato Reviews = *Allmusic… …
52Cambridge & County Folk Museum — The Cambridge County Folk Museum is in Cambridge, England. It is housed in eight rooms in the former White Horse Inn, a public house that closed in 1934. The museum presents the lives of the people of Cambridge and its surrounding area in the… …
53old-fashioned medicine — old fashioned medical remedies, remedies that were used before the advent of modern medicine, folk remedies (chicken soup, castor oil, etc.) …
54Lycoperdon — A genus of fungi (family Lycoperdaceae), some species of which have been used medicinally, e.g., in folk medicine, by nasal inhalation to treat epistaxis. The spores of L. bovista (L. gemmatum, L. caelatum) and of L. pyriforme may rarely produce… …
55Signature — 1) That part of the prescription that contains the doctor s directions to the patient. For example, the signature might say “take twice daily with food”. Also known as the sig.. 2) The outward appearance of a natural object, which was once taken… …
56asafetida — A gum resin, the inspissated exudate from the root of Ferula foetida (family Umbelliferae); malodorous material used as a repellent against dogs, cats, and rabbits, and formerly used as an antispasmodic; in Asia, used as a condiment and flavoring …
57camphor — A ketone distilled from the bark and wood of Cinnamonum camphora, an evergreen tree of Taiwan and Southeast Asia and the adjoining islands, and also prepared synthetically from oil of turpentine; used in a variety of commercial products and as a… …
58licorice — SYN: glycyrrhiza. * * * lic·o·rice or chiefly Brit li·quo·rice lik( ə) rish, rəs n 1) a European leguminous plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra) with pinnate leaves and spikes of blue flowers 2 a) GLYCYRRHIZA (2) b) an extract of… …
59mistletoe — SYN: viscum (1). * * * mis·tle·toe mis əl .tō, chiefly Brit miz n any of various parasitic or semiparasitic plants (family Loranthaceae, the mistletoe family) that have thick leathery mostly opposite and sometimes scaly leaves and include some… …
60stramonium — The dried leaves and flowering or fruiting tops with branches of Datura s. or D. tatula (family Solanaceae), a herb abounding in temperate and subtropical countries; it contains an alkaloid, daturine, identical with hyoscyamine. It is an… …
