Ailments afflicting wizarding folk are underreported in the muggle world. The recent integration of muggles and magical folk with the return of You-Know-Who (aka He Who Must Not Be Named) may result in a similar affliction of inhabitants of both worlds. We describe interesting maladies afflicting muggles and wizarding folk alike, arising from the use and misuse of magic. We also provide a basic...

ith the shifting of belief from chemically synthesized medicinal drugs associated with adverse side effects, to traditionally used safe medicinal herbs, there is a massive attempt in this field for identifying potent plants as a remedy against various ailments..Ajuga bracteosa, a low perennial herb is one such plant, known to have numerous medicinal properties against various ailments such as a...

Rhodiola rosea is a perennial plant at high altitudes in the Arctic and mountainous regions throughout Europe and Asia. It contains various active compounds e.g. phenylpropanoids, phenylethanol derivatives, flavanoids, monoterpenes, triterpenes, phenolic acids, and essential oils. Salidroside and tyrosol are the major bioactive constituents in Rhodiola rosea. Traditionally, Rhodiola rosea is us...

We are pleased to see that early in his work Dr. Carmichaf gives a clear statement of the sense?and the only sense-^"111 which the study of children's ailments can be considered 3 ?'special" one. He says: "We are dealing with the safl1? diseases as in adult life, modified as they are by the conditio11 of growth and development going on in the child. It is V? ^ strictly correct to talk of diseas...

Magico - religious rites in treating physical and mental ailments once widespread in ancient India are still prevalent among the tribals / primitive societies. This study shows that it is based on a scientifically sound psychological approach. Magical incantation and other religious rites performed to cure the disease unknowingly affect the mind of patient who in turn subjected to have autosugg...

It has been estimated that minor ailments account for as much as a third of GP consultations. This is equivalent to 300,000 consultations every day. Moreover, research suggests that minor ailments and injuries account for between 30 and 40 per cent of attendances at accident and emergency departments. Transferring minor ailments in the community from GPs to pharmacists has been shown to reduce ...

| In the past, the GNU C compiler (GCC) has been successfully ported to several superscalar microprocessors. For that purpose, the instruction timing of the target processor usually had been modeled in a straightforward manner. Unfortunately, in our experience, this is likely to lead astray the instruction scheduler. In this paper we describe some of our experiments that revealed such aws, conc...

In this data article, records on demographic data, family problem issues, as well as results of medical tests from five major classes of psychotic disorder namely: bipolar; vascular dementia, minimal brain dysfunction; insomnia; and schizophrenia, were collected on 500 psychotic patients carefully selected from the pool of medical records of Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, for the pe...

Human beings are dealing with various types of stresses in the modern day’s life style and this includes the habit of tobacco smoking also. These stressors cause an imbalance between the antioxidant-oxidant species in the body and leads towards inflammatory conditions. There are various herbs which are already included in Indian diet to deal with such situation and examples are the daily flavou...