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Journal articles on the topic "Traditional medicine – Belize"

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Griffith, Lauren, and Cameron Griffith. "Let Them Eat Chaya: Cultural Revitalization through Culinary Offerings in Belize." Heritage 4, no. 3 (2021): 1511–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030083.

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The Belizean culinary landscape has experienced a dramatic shift in recent years, with an abundance of “fresh” and “local” dishes (i.e., salads) appearing on restaurant menus. While many tourists appreciate the option of ordering salad, there is a truly local green that might be equally or better suited to the tourist market given what we know about tourists’ interests in both authenticity and healthful eating. This paper explores both host and guest attitudes towards chaya, a leafy green that is high in protein and may have anti-diabetic properties. We argue that tourists enjoy eating chaya b
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Lira, Rafael, and Alejandro Casas. "Uso y manejo de Ibervillea millspaughii (Cogn.) C. Jeffrey, Melothria pendula L. y otras especies silvestres de la familia Cucurbitacea: Posibles procesos de domesticación incipiente." Botanical Sciences, no. 62 (May 20, 2017): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17129/botsci.1553.

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Information on use and management of wild species of Cucurbitaceae is presented, in order to analyze processes of incipient plant domestication. Ibervillea millspaughii is a perennial plant species with massive roots, distributed from Tamaulipas to Belize. Roots of this species are utilized as medicine in the treatment of arthritis, inflammations and muscular pain. Roots are commonly collected from individuals in wild populations, but, in some villages of Quinatana Roo people tolerate and enhance individuals of this plant species in anthropogenic areas; also, people cultivate this plant specie
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Sherley, Miranda. "The traditional categories of fluoroacetate poisoning signs and symptoms belie substantial underlying similarities." Toxicology Letters 151, no. 3 (2004): 399–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.03.013.

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Chi, Lin, Ailian Zhang, Zedong Qiu, et al. "Hydration activity, crystal structural, and electronic properties studies of Ba-doped dicalcium silicate." Nanotechnology Reviews 9, no. 1 (2020): 1027–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ntrev-2020-0082.

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AbstractHigh belite cement has a wide application potential due to its low energy consumption, low CO2 emission, and excellent durability performance. Due to the low hydration rate and strength development at an early age, the activation of beta-dicalcium silicate (β-C2S) crystallographic structure is essential to improve the early strength of high belite cement. In this study, the β-C2S phase is activated by dissolving Ba2+ ions into the crystal lattice to improve the hydration rate. Unlike the traditional analysis methods of thermodynamics and dynamics theory, the first principle and density
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Arnason, John, Victor Cal, Todd Pesek, et al. "A review of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology of traditional medicines used by Q’eqchi’ Maya Healers of Xna’ajeb’ aj Ralch’o’och’, Belize." Botany, July 12, 2021, 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0069.

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This review describes an Indigenous-led project run by Q’eqchi’ Maya Healers of Belize meant to strengthen and improve traditional botanical healing. The goals of this project were to conserve medicinal plant knowledge by way of ethnobotanical studies, and to conserve the plants themselves by creating a community ethnobotanical garden. A total of 169 medicinal species were collected in the ethnobotanical survey, which provided unique knowledge on many rainforest species of the wet lowland forest of southern Belize, not found in neighbouring Indigenous cultures. Consensus on plant uses by the H
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Roussell, Aaron, Lori Sexton, Paul Deppen, Marisa Omori, and Esther Scheibler. "The dark footprint of state violence: A synthetic approach to the American crime decline." Theoretical Criminology, February 10, 2021, 136248062098423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480620984233.

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This project combines the conversation on the national crime rate with emerging discussions on the violence that the state perpetrates against civilians. To measure US lethal violence holistically, we reconceptualize the traditional definitional boundaries of violence to erase arbitrary distinctions between state- and civilian-caused crime and violence. Discussions of the “crime decline” focus specifically on civilian crime, positioning civilians as the sole danger to the health, wealth, and safety of individuals. Violence committed by the state—from police homicide to deaths in custody to in-
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Traditional medicine – Belize"

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Dickerson, Candice M. "A look at bush medicine in a pharmaceutical world : three traditional healers in Belize face globalization /." View online, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/anthroptad/11.

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Reeser, Douglas Carl. "Medical Pluralism in a Neoliberal State: Health and Deservingness in Southern Belize." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5295.

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This ethnography explores the varied contours of a national health care system and how it is used in conjunction with traditional forms of health care in Toledo District, Belize, focused on the largest town of Punta Gorda (P.G.), In a medically plural environment, a variety of health care options are used based on a wide range of social, economic, and structural factors that shape people's choices and decisions. The convenience of and experience with low-cost home- and self-care options make these the most common first choice during an illness event in P.G., however a deeper exploration of hea
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Ferrier, Jonathan. "Ethnobotany, Pharmacology, and Metabolomics of Antidiabetic Plants used by the Eeyou Istchee Cree, Lukomir Highlanders, and Q’eqchi’ Maya." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30441.

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A study was undertaken of plants used for treatment of diabetic symptoms by traditional healers of the Eeyou Istchee Cree (Canada), Lukomir Highlanders (Bosnia & Herzegovina), and Q’eqchi’ Maya (Belize). All antidiabetic plants were ranked by syndromic importance value (SIV) based on 15 symptoms, all of which were recognized by the Cree and Maya and 8 by the Highlanders. The Cree used only 18 species, the Highlanders 41, and the Maya 150, numbers which reflect the diversity of flora in their region. Vaccinium (Ericaceae) was one of the few genera in all three regions and the only consensus gen
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Husaini, Danladi Chiroma. "Guidelines on the use of indigenous-western anti-hypertensive therapies in Belize." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27136.

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This study’s objectives were to identify, describe, and provide guidelines on using indigenous-western antihypertensive therapies in Belize to examine indigenous therapies’ efficacy in lowering blood pressure. The researcher utilized an explanatory sequential mixed method research design to examine indigenous-western therapies. Data were collected quantitatively from the general public (n=422) and qualitatively from hypertensive patients (n=24) using indigenous therapies and vendors (n=19) of indigenous therapies. The study results identified 47 different medicinal plants used in the managemen
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Kang, Tsui-Hesiu, and 康翠秀. "THE KNOWLEDGE，BELIEF，BEHAVIORAL INTENTION AND MEDICAL CARE UTILIZATIONS OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN PEITOU DISTRICT，TAIPEI CITY." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32996210575619576243.

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Books on the topic "Traditional medicine – Belize"

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1952-, Balick Michael J., ed. Rainforest remedies: One hundred healing herbs of Belize. Lotus Press, 1993.

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Fernandez, Barbara. Medicine woman: The herbal tradition of Belize. National Library Service, 1990.

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Arvigo, Rosita, and Michael J. Balick. Messages from the Gods: A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014.

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Arvigo, Rosita, and Michael J. Balick. Messages from the Gods: A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Arvigo, Rosita, and Michael Balick. Rainforest Remedies: 100 Healing Herbs of Belize 2nd Enlarged Edition. 2nd ed. Lotus Press, 1998.

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Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Kebudayaan Daerah Riau (Indonesia), ed. Upacara tradisional belian di daerah Riau. Bagian Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Kebudayaan Daerah Riau, 1990.

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Broadbent, Alex. Philosophy of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190612139.001.0001.

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Philosophy of Medicine seeks to answer two questions: (1) what is medicine? and (2) what should we think of it? The first question is motivated by the observation that medicine has existed and continues to exist in many different forms in different times and places. There is no activity or belief that is common to all medical traditions in all times and places. What, if anything, makes us count these activities as varieties of the same thing—namely, medicine? The book distinguishes the goal and business of medicine, arguing that the goal is cure, while the business of medicine cannot be, becau
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Moffett, Rodney. Basotho Medicinal Plants Second Edition - Meriana ya dimela tsa Basotho Kgatiso ya Bobedi. SunBonani Scholar, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928424611.

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As a Mosotho I believe this publication assists in documenting the deep indigenous knowledge of our forefathers and helps preserve the proud tradition of the Basotho Nation. Dr Chris Nhlapo Vice-Chancellor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology This publication is an important contribution to the documentation of medicinal plant use by the Basotho. It contains a comprehensive list of known medicinal plants, their up-to-date scientific names, their vernacular names, as well as their uses. This book will appeal to experts, as well as to readers who are unfamiliar with traditional medicinal pla
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Hazzard-Donald, Katrina. Disruptive Intersection. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037290.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the movement and recoalescing of eight essential elements into the African Religion Complex (ARC), thus enabling the Hoodoo religion to emerge briefly: counterclockwise sacred circle dancing; spirit possession; the principle of sacrifice; ritual water immersion; divination; ancestor reverence; belief in spiritual cause of malady; and herbal and naturopathic medicine. Something resembling Hoodoo developed among the first generation of culturally diverse Africans born in the North American colonies. Enslaved Africans manifest a range of responses to contact with both slaver
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McDonough, Jeffrey K. Teleology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845711.001.0001.

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Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist, for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, eyes are for seeing and gills are for breathing. It is the belief that people go to the cinema in order to see films and that salmon swim upstream in order to spawn. The core idea of teleology is thus intuitive enough. Nonetheless, difficult questions arise as we dig deeper into the concept. Is teleology intrinsic or extrinsic—that is, is teleology inherent in its subjects or is it imposed on them from the outside? Does teleology necessarily involve intentionality—that i
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Book chapters on the topic "Traditional medicine – Belize"

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Balick, Michael J., Rosita Arvigo, Gregory Shropshire, Jay Walker, David Campbell, and Leopoldo Romero. "The Belize Ethnobotany Project: safeguarding medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Belize." In Advances in Phytomedicine. Elsevier, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1572-557x(02)80032-0.

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Banu, Jameela. "Nutritional Interventions: Diet Modifications, Nutritional Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine." In Type 2 Diabetes [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94645.

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Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is characterized by increased circulating blood glucose levels. Several therapies are available to control glucose levels. However, nutritional choices play a major role in managing diabetes. Nutritional supplements can help in reducing the side effects of medicines on the individual so, this chapter will not only discuss several nutritional choices but also available nutritional supplements to control T2DM. Keeping in mind the traditional belief that food is medicine and as therapies are often associated with deleterious side effects, this chapter will discuss alternative and herbal medicines. In addition, life style alterations with proper nutritional choices is also important and will be touched upon in this chapter.
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"Spirituality, belief and knowledge." In Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203467107-12.

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Wallace, Daniel J., and Janice Brock Wallace. "Behind the Hype: Unproven, Experimental, Herbal, and Innovative Remedies." In All About Fibromyalgia. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195147537.003.0034.

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Advocates of practical though controversial lifestyle approaches have always found a sympathetic ear in the United States since the time folk practitioner Sylvester Graham’s principles of health, nutrition, and fitness (in addition to inventing the Graham cracker) achieved cult status in the 1840s. Heroic, misguided therapies were administered by allopathic (mainstream) physicians throughout the nineteenth century. This created fertile ground for promoters of patent medicines and nostrums to those escaping organized medicine’s use of leeches, cupping, phlebotomy (blood drawing) knives, and brutal laxative regimens. During the Progressive Era, medicine started to improve with the establishment of postgraduate training programs at Johns Hopkins University just before the turn of the century and the regulation of medicines as part of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The final revolution occurred when two-thirds of the medical schools in the United States closed following revelations of their inadequacies by the investigative Flexner Report funded by the Carnegie Foundation in 1910. Despite these changes, however, the appeal of alternative therapies to the American public continues unabated. The previous two chapters have described how mainstream, organized, conventional medicine approaches fibromyalgia. Even though their therapies usually provide significant relief of symptoms and signs, traditional physicians to some extent must regard themselves as failures. In the United States, one person in three has consulted a complementary medicine practitioner. These individuals spend $23 billion a year on this approach, $13 billion of which is out-of-pocket and not reimbursed by insurance. This exceeds all expenditures on hospital care in the United States. A 1996 Canadian study found that of several hundred fibromyalgia patients, 70 percent purchased unproven over-the-counter rubs, creams, vitamins, or herbs; 40 percent sought help from alternative medicine practitioners such as chiropractors, massage therapists, homeopaths, reflexologists, or acupuncturists; and 26 percent went on special diets. Since it is logical to believe that people who are tired and hurt want to get better, it follows that some fibromyalgia patients will try anything that is not harmful to improve their medical condition. This chapter is dedicated to patients who wish to “look before they leap” into nontraditional therapies.
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Costa-Font, Joan, and Azusa Sato. "Cultural Attitudes and the “Traditional Medicines Paradox”: Evidence from Ghana and the Philippines." In Social Economics. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035651.003.0011.

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Traditional medicines continue to be widely used worldwide despite the increasing availability of modern medicines. We term this phenomenon the ‘traditional medicines paradox’. We investigate a potential explanation for such a paradox, namely the presence of ‘entrenched cultural beliefs’ in explaining continued use. As such, this paper draws upon unique data collected in Ghana to examine the impact of 6 attitudes towards traditional medicines and healers on utilisation. To further test the importance of attitudes, we look at data from the Philippines. In both cases, cultural attitudes such as perceived healer knowledge, trust, belief in ability to cure, and acceptability are found to be significantly associated with utilisation. Hence it is unlikely that traditional medicines will be supplanted simply by increasing access to modern drugs as they are not perceived to be substitutes and the systems exhibit divergent logic.
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Sarilo, Cedar. "Healing Conflict With Grigri." In Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3665-0.ch002.

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Hoodoo is an ethnomedical, natural healing method of magical rituals derived from West and Central African traditions, elements of Christianity, Native American folklore and African-American slavery. Rootlore applies herbs, roots, minerals, implements and animal part charms for ritual and personal use as intercessory curios that petition supernatural help and flaunt superstition. Grigri is a hoodoo object believed to protect the wearer from evil. Belief and protection associated with personal hoodoo may be appreciated with concepts in ritual healing, rootlore and meaningful experiences with respect to placebo effects. The study provides a narrative analysis of elements of ritual preparation of a chicken feet Grigri within a shared space with extended family members. In a personal account, a successful attempt of curing a conflict by unconventional means is reported. Ideas about extraordinary experiences outside traditional western medicine arise. Thoughts about the efficacy of taboo ritual material as complementary to western medicine speak to needing more innovative directions in psychotherapy.
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Ellis, Michael. "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies." In Caring for Autism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190259358.003.0011.

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the collective term used for treatments or therapies that have not typically been part of Western medicine. The “complementary” part of this term means that the treatment may be used along with more conventional medicine, while the “alternative” component of the term implies that it may be used in place of traditional medi­cine. Most people in the United States choose not to forgo Western medicine and instead combine CAM and conventional medicine, preferring the term “integrative medicine” over “complementary and alternative medicine.” CAM purports to focus on the whole person, including the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of health. A wide variety of treatments can fit under the umbrella of CAM treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this chapter, we will discuss many of these treatments and the evidence base for them. According to studies, 50% to 75% of children with ASD are treated with CAM therapies. Even higher percentages of children with more severe ASD or intellectual disability are treated with CAM. Parents are also more likely to use CAM treatments if the child has seizures, gastrointestinal symptoms, or a behavioral disorder. Parents believe that these therapies are more accessible and less invasive. Most parents are more comfortable when they hear that a treatment falls under the CAM category because they believe it is more “natural” or safer (1,2). CAM therapies have varying degrees of efficacy and safety data. These different CAM therapies fall under the larger categories of nutrition/dietary interventions, immunomodulation, biochemical and metabolic therapies, detoxification, manipulative and body-based practices, music therapy, sensory integration therapy, hippotherapy (horseback riding), dolphin swim therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and so forth. It is beyond the scope of this book to discuss each therapy in extensive detail, but I will give an introduction to each type of CAM treatment and then discuss the more important and controversial treatments (2).
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Broadbent, Alex. "Alternatives and Medical Dissidence." In Philosophy of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190612139.003.0008.

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This chapter introduces the notion of medical dissidence: conscious deviation from the main current of professional opinion. Cosmopolitanism is applied as a way of getting to grips with the popularity of Alternative Medicine despite its common dismissal among the literati. Most efficacy claims are not well supported in Alternative Medicine. However, it is not necessarily irrational to give them credence, or to rely on anecdotal evidence, because testimony is so central to nearly all medical evidence, and people are very differently placed in the reasons they might have to believe or disbelieve testimony. In addition, there may be non-curative value in alternative medicine. Cosmopolitanism does not advise an attitude of “anything goes,” but does urge humility on those of whatever persuasion who dismiss other traditions or people as irrational.
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Henderson, John. "Medicine, the Environment and the Poor." In Florence Under Siege. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300196344.003.0003.

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This chapter emphasises the importance of taking seriously seventeenth-century medical theory, and its understanding of the environmental factors associated with plague. The increasing belief in the link between environment and disease led to closer attention by government and medical staff to the living conditions of the poor. In Florence, as in some other Italian cities at the time, the public health authorities instituted a detailed house-by-house survey of the living conditions of the poor. The chapter provides a detailed analysis of the survey, and in the process reveals the crowded and insanitary living conditions of the poorer members of society. It stresses that measures taken to address these problems are not just evidence of insanitary conditions, but are also part of a long tradition of proactive sanitary legislation which sought to cleanse houses and streets of the filth seen as causing disease. More broadly, the chapter seeks to understand these measures in relation to attitudes towards the poorer members of society, as reflected in contemporary medical and government rhetoric, which even sought to blame the poor for the worsening epidemic through their poor diet, lifestyle, and behaviour.
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Lin, Hong. "Cultivating Chan as Proactive Therapy for Social Wellness." In Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch008.

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Chan is a superior mental training methodology derived from Buddhism and absorbed wisdom of religious practitioners, philosophers, and scholars around Eastern Asia through thousands of years. As the primary way of Chan, meditation has clear effects in bringing practitioners’ mind into a tranquil state and promoting both mental and physical health. The effect of Chan is measurable. The authors propose to establish a Chan science by applying modern experimental sciences to various models that have been used in traditional medicine and philosophical studies. Through these studies, they believe they will be able to make Chan a beneficial practice to promote human life in modern society.
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Conference papers on the topic "Traditional medicine – Belize"

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Husain, Fadly, and Baiq Farhatul Wahidah. "Medicine from nature: Identification of medicinal plants used by belian (sasakese indigenous healer) in traditional medicine in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia." In THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION (ICGRC) AND AJI FROM RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY. Author(s), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5061896.

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