BACKGROUND Although most Moroccans rely to some extent on traditional medicine, the practice of frigg to treat paediatric ailments by elderly women traditional healers known as ferraggat, has not yet been documented. We describe the role of these specialist healers, document the medicinal plants they use, and evaluate how and why their practice is changing. METHODS Ethnomedicinal and ethnobot...

BACKGROUND Hundreds of thousands of soldiers face exposure to combat during wars across the globe. The health effects of traumatic war experiences have not been adequately assessed across the lifetime of these veterans. OBJECTIVE To identify the role of traumatic war experiences in predicting postwar nervous and physical disease and mortality using archival data from military and medical reco...

BACKGROUND Plants have traditionally been used as a source of medicine in Ethiopia since early times for the control of various ailments afflicting humans and their domestic animals. However, little work has been made in the past to properly document and promote the knowledge. Today medicinal plants and the associated knowledge in the country are threatened due to deforestation, environmental d...

INTRODUCTION The term "dyspepsia" comes from the Greek words "dys' and 'peptin", which maen "ill digestion" or indigestion, although this set of symptoms in the adult clinic has little to do with the digestion or absorption process, and refers more to ailments related to the upper section of the gastrointestinal tract. AIM Assessment of the frequency of functional dyspepsia diagnosis, the cha...

The Effect of Self-Care Training for Health Ambassadors on Number Doctor Appointment Due to Treatment Minor Ailments