American folk medicine. A symposium

Use of complementary and alternative medicine among family practice patients in south Texas.

Mind-body Relaxation 28% Meditation 15% Yoga 2% Imagery 6% Biofeedback 2% Hypnosis 1% Self-help group 4% Spiritual healing 8% Manual healing Massage 14% Acupressure 2% Therapeutic Touch 2% Chiropractic 5% Reflexology 2% Herbal remedies Aromatherapy 4% Herbs 24% Folk practices Home remedy 13% Folk healer 2% Curandero 1% Other practices Acupuncture 1% Homeopathy 1% Bioelectromagnetic 1% Light the...

Plants Producing Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins in Traditional Medicine.

Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are enzymes that deadenylate nucleic acids and are broadly distributed in the plant kingdom. Many plants that contain RIPs are listed in the pharmacopoeias of folk medicine all over the world, mostly because of their toxicity. This review analyses the position occupied in traditional medicine by plants from which RIPs have been isolated. The overview starts...

Curanderismo: a picture of Mexican-American folk healing.

A Cross-cultural Comparison of Factors Related to Help-seeking Attitudes for Psychological Disorder

It has been reported that Asian people have negative views of mental illness, including beliefs that it is incurable and shameful. Asian people also tend to attribute causes of mental disorders to factors less susceptible to personal influence such as supernatural factors, and are likely to have an external health locus of control which reflects beliefs that health outcomes are a product of ext...

Lessons from history: why race and ethnicity have played a major role in biomedical research.

Before any citizen enters the role of scientist, medical practitioner, lawyer, epidemiologist, and so on, each and all grow up in a society in which the categories of human differentiation are folk categories that organize perceptions, relations, and behavior. That was true during slavery, during Reconstruction, the eugenics period, the two World Wars, and is no less true today. While every per...