Printing off a kidney or another human organ may sound like something out of science fiction, but with advancements in 3D printing technology, the idea may not be so far-fetched.
In Native American culture, a medicine man is revered as both a spiritual and physical healer. So when Karl Gillson, the District Attorney in New Mexico’s McKinley County, found himself prosecuting a Navajo healer for sexual abuse he recognized how much was at stake.
There is a high turnover in the global herbal market spearheaded by China, India and Thailand. In this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO, the Managing Director, Nigeria Medicinal Plants Development Company (NMPDC), a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Zainab Ujudud Sheriff, speaks on the mandate of the organisation and what it is doing to make Nigeria a top earner in the global herbal market.
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that the Department of Ayush, under his ministry, would strive to streamline the quality of education in traditional medicine
"We have 504 Ayush educational institutions, including 111 post-graduate colleges, where about 27,000 students are admitted every year. More and more foreign students are coming to India to study Ayurveda and Yoga, reflecting the increased global interest towards Ayush," he pointed out.
Psychological scientists Melanie Rudd and Jennifer Aaker of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management devised a way to study this feeling of awe in the laboratory. Across three different experiments, they found that jaw-dropping moments made participants feel like they had more time available and made them more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer time to help others. The researchers found that the effects that awe has on decision-making and well-being can be explained by awe’s ability to actually change our subjective experience of time by slowing it down. Experiences of awe help to brings us into the present moment which, in turn, adjusts our perception of time, influences our decisions, and makes life feel more satisfying than it would otherwise. Now that’s awesome.
Apache girls take part in ancient tests of strength, endurance and character that will make them women and prepare them for the trials of womanhood. See all ...
Los últimos años han sido difíciles para México. Todas las noticias parecen ser malas. Pero hay una realidad distinta oculta en la vida diaria. En este documental inigualable, el director Duncan Bridgeman entreteje canciones con conversaciones únicas logrando un bellísimo resultado. Es una colaboración entre las mentes mexicanas más creativas, donde se combinaron nombres famosos, con aquellos héroes desconocidos de todo el país. Todos ellos reflejando lo que significa ser un mexicano que vive en estos tiempos de grandes cambios y celebrando que la identidad mexicana es una poderosa familia.
El resultado es una reflexión musical inspiradora, y a ratos cómica, sobre lo que es la "Mexicanidad" hoy en día.
The Cofan Survival Fund employs a highly-trained, uniformed, and very effective team of 60+ Cofán Rangers who patrol more than one million acres of extremely biodiverse mountains and rain forests of the Cofán Ancestral Territories in Northern Ecuador.
Cofán rangers have successfully protected rain forest plants and animals against deforestation, poaching, illegal mining and other activities that threaten the ecological integrity of these vital ecosystems.
The Cofan Survival Fund developed this unique conservation program over the past 20 years through generous scientific and financial support from international conservation organizations, philanthropic foundations and individual donors including The Nature Conservancy, The Wildlife Conservation Society, The Blue Moon Foundation, and USAID to name a few.
Modern medicine has sharply reduced the popularity of traditional alternative medicine in Georgia. But lately medical herbs have made a comeback on the market due to the high cost of modern drugs. Statistics show that 90% of students at the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Georgian National Medical University and Iovel Kutateladze Pharmacologic Institute choose phytotherapy as a specialisation.
Lia Lee, the severely disabled daughter of Hmong immigrants in California and the subject of the book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,” died Aug. 31.
With its unique flora and fauna, New Zealand offers a large array of plants found only in that region, many of which became part of the Maori traditional system of medicine known as Rongoa Maori.
Thailand is a country caught between historical traditions and the fast pace lifestyle in modern day society. This is clearly shown in Thailand’s medical system and the government’s attempts to integrate traditional and modern medicine.
An underlying premise of this type of medicine is that the mind and body of a person are inseparable, according to the study. A person must have good spirit and pay attention to cultivating that spirit to be in good health.
The Purdue Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Psychoactive Substances Research Collection was established in 2006 with a generous gift from the Betsy Gordon Foundation.
dedicated to the people of baro. Life has a rhythm, it's constantly moving. The word for rhythm ( used by the Malinke tribes ) is FOLI. It is a word that enc...
El ejemplar del "Vochol" que ha recorrido varias entidades en México y Estados Unidos llegará en octubre a Francia, donde el arte de las manos jalisciences y nayaritas al forrar con chaquira podrá ser admirado en el Musé du quai Branly.
Zootherapy inventories are important as they contribute to the world documentation of the prevalence, importance and diversity of the medicinal use of animals in traditional human communities.
Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham shares hilarious and hair-raising tales of ayahuasca, the powerful Amazonian psychoactive potion, at Evolver Ayahuasca Monologue...
In the Southwest traditional healing methods, like herbal remedies, often stem from old Mexican and Native American customs. But these practices have been overshadowed by modern Western medicine and some are being forgotten. A group in El Paso is making plans to start a new school where students can be trained in alternative healing methods.
Many scientists raise a skeptical eyebrow to traditional herbal treatments, but a new phylogenetic study suggests that such remedies may hold promise—for both medicine and drug development.
In the study, researchers from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom found that many medicinal plants used by nearly 100 cultures on different continents are related. Because these distant groups of people likely identified their plant therapies independently, such herbal treatments may be legit, the researchers argue, and the plants likely contain bioactive compounds that scientist could exploit for new drug therapies.
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