Encyclopedia - Ancient Medicine: Encyclopedia - Ancient Medicine
Ancient Medicine is a treatise on medicine, written roughly 400 BC by Hippocrates. Category: Ancient Greek works Other related archivesA...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ancient Medicine: Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Chinese And Greek
ANCIENT MEDICINE: CHINESE AND GREEK   Chinese According to the ancient Chinese system of philosophy, the human body is governed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Sources Of Information
Until the 19th century, the main sources of information regarding ancient Egyptian medicine were the writers from a later period of antiq...   » Read the article

Article - Sweat Lodge: Temazcal I/iii - The Traditional Mexican Sweat Bath
The Native American Sweat Lodge, Temazcal, is an ancient practice from the native indians of America; a sacred ritual for Healing and Pu...   » Read the article

Article - Sweat Lodge: Temazcal Ii/iii - Mexican Method Of Sweat Baths For Curative Purposes
The Native American Sweat Lodge, Temazcal, is an ancient practice from the native indians of America; a sacred ritual for Healing and Pu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India
Science and technology in ancient India covered all the major branches of human knowledge and activities, including mathematics, astronom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bloodletting: Encyclopedia - Bloodletting
Bloodletting (or blood-letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a popular medical practice from antiquity up to the lat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Pepper: Encyclopedia - Black Pepper
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ai: Encyclopedia - Ai
does not include companies or organizations Adobe Illustrator (.ai)(AI), as the file extension for the native file format and abbreviati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine: Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine
Sports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood: Encyclopedia - Blood
Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). Medical terms related t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug
The cannabis plant can be dried or otherwise processed to yield products containing large concentrations of compounds that have medicinal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patent Medicine: Encyclopedia - Patent Medicine
Patent medicine is the term given to various medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dna Repair: Encyclopedia - Dna Repair
DNA repair is a process constantly operating in cells; it is essential to survival because it protects the genome from damage and harmful...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean Medicine: Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean Medicine
Traditional Korean medicine (Hangul: 한의학, Hanja: 韓醫學) developed alongside and from Chinese medical techniques and procedures....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hippocrates: Encyclopedia - Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460 BC–c. 380 BC) was an ancient Greek physician. He has been called "the father of medicine", and is commonly r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chronic: Encyclopedia - Chronic
The word chronic comes from Chronos, the ancient Greek god of time. Chronic - Medicine. In medicine, a chronic disease is a persistent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abaris The Hyperborean: Encyclopedia - Abaris The Hyperborean
Abaris the Hyperborean was a legendary or semi-legendary sage, healer and priest known to the ancient Greeks. According to Herodotus (4.3...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Doctors And Other Healers
The ancient Egyptian word for doctor is swnw. There is a long history of swnw in Ancient egypt. The earliest recorded physician in the wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Egyptian Medicine - Magic And Religion
Magic and religion were part of everyday life in ancient Egypt. Gods and demons were though to be responsible for many ailments, so often...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Medicine & Surgery
Ayurveda as a science of medicine owes its origins in ancient India. Ayurveda consists of two Sanskrit words – ‘ayur’ meaning age o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Classical Indian Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Classical Indian Medicine
classical Indian medicine (ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda, classical Ayurveda, classic Hindu medicine, traditional Ayurveda, tradit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Chemistry
Ancient India’s development in chemistry was not confined at an abstract level like physics, but found development in a variety of prac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Civil Engineering & Architecture
India’s urban civilization is traceable to Mohenjodaro and Harappa, now in Pakistan, where planned urban townships existed 5000 years b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Shipbuilding & Navigation
A panel found in Mohenjodaro depicts a sailing craft, and thousands of years later Ajanta murals also depict a sea-faring ship. The scien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Fine Arts
Max Muller, a German Indologist has once declared that “ If I am asked which nation had been advanced in the ancient world in respect o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Physics
The root to the concept of atom in ancient India is derived from the classification of material world in five basic elements by ancient I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science And Technology In Ancient India: Encyclopedia Ii - Science And Technology In Ancient India - Mathematics
Mathematics represents a very high level of abstraction attained by human brain. In ancient India, roots to mathematics can be traced to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edwin Smith Papyrus: Encyclopedia Ii - Edwin Smith Papyrus - History
Edwin Smith was born in 1822, the year that Egyptian hieroglyphs were first deciphered. Being an Egyptologist, he bought parts of the anc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ebers Papyrus: Encyclopedia Ii - Ebers Papyrus - Medical Knowledge
The Ebers papyrus is written in hieratic script and preserves for us the most voluminous record of ancient Egyptian medicine known. The 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Pepper: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Pepper - History
Pepper has been used as a spice in India since prehistoric times. It was probably first cultivated on the Malabar coast of India, in what...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Blood - Health And Disease
Blood - Ancient medicine. Hippocratic medicine considered blood one of the four humors (together with phlegm, yellow bile and black bil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Pepper: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Pepper - World Trade
Peppercorns are, by monetary value, the most widely traded spice in the world, accounting for 20 per cent of all spice imports in 2002. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Pepper: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Pepper - The Pepper Plant
The pepper plant is a perennial woody vine growing to four metres in height on supporting trees, poles, or trellises. It is a spreading v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Pepper: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Pepper - Varieties Of Pepper
Black pepper is produced from the still-green unripe berries of the pepper plant. The berries are cooked briefly in hot water, both to cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black Pepper: Encyclopedia Ii - Black Pepper - Flavour
Pepper gets its spicy heat mostly from the piperine compound, which is found both in the outer fruit and in the seed. Refined piperine, m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Medicine - General Review Of The History Of Medicine
History of medicine - Egyptian medicine. See main article: Ancient Egyptian medicine. Medical information contained in the Edwin Smith ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Technology - Measuring Technological Progress
Many sociologists and anthropologists have created social theories dealing with social and cultural evolution. Some, like Lewis H. Morgan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ancient Christian Magic: Alternative Health Dictionary On Ancient Christian Magic
ancient Christian magic: Group of amulet recommendations, recipes, and spells conveyed in a book of the same name. Apparently, the bas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - History
Cannabis has been known as a medicinal and psychoactive compound from very early in history, and has been used continuously throughout th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - History
Cannabis has been known as a medicinal and psychoactive compound from very early in history, and has been used continuously throughout th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bloodletting: Encyclopedia Ii - Bloodletting - Bloodletting In The Ancient World
Bloodletting is one of the oldest medical practices, having been practiced among diverse ancient peoples, including the Greeks, the Egypt...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Ayurveda
AYURVEDA: Ancient Indian system of medicine of preventative medicine and treatments which includes diet, yoga and meditation.  ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Spiritual Use
Cannabis has a long history of spiritual use, especially in India, where it has been used by wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Spiritual Use
Cannabis has a long history of spiritual use, especially in India, where it has been used by wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of St Andrews: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of St Andrews - Governance And Administration
In common with the other Ancient universities of Scotland, governance is determined by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858. This Act cre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Alternative Health Dictionary Ii On Ayurveda
Ayurveda Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of medicine of preventative medicine and treatments which includes diet, yoga and medita...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eastern Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Eastern Medicine
Eastern medicine: a broad term for Oriental, Indian, Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese medicine, all of which share philosophies about th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Medicine Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine: a variety of ancient and modern therapeutic methods, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, heat therapy, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Traditional Korean Medicine: Encyclopedia Ii - Traditional Korean Medicine - History
The origin of Korean Medicine goes back to ancient times. In Samguk Yusa·Gojoseon(삼국유사·고조선), where the founding myth of K...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aryuvedic Medicine: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Aryuvedic Medicine
Aryuvedic Medicine  - A system of medicine derived from an ancient Indian philosophy. The practices emphasize the use of one's ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Chinese (oriental) Medicine
Chinese (Oriental) Medicine: Traditional Chinese medicine encompasses a vast range of therapies including acupuncuture, herbs, bodywor...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese (oriental) Medicine: Natural Health Therapy Dictionary On Chinese (oriental) Medicine
CHINESE (ORIENTAL) MEDICINE: Oriental medical practitioners are trained to use a variety of ancient and modern therapeutic methods--in...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Acupuncture: A Spiritual Dictionary On Acupuncture
Acupuncture: An ancient form of Chinese medicine where needles are inserted at meridian points in the body to release energy blockage...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Ii On Ayurveda
AYURVEDA: The ancient Indian science of medicine.   (See also: AYURVEDA ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedas: A Spiritual Dictionary On Vedas
Vedas: An ancient sanskrit text. The entire body of ancient, sacred revelations of truth. Chief amongst which are the Rigveda, Saamav...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chinese Medicine: Alternative Health Dictionary On Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM): Ancient holistic system whose basics include herbology, nutrition, and the conce...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine Wheel: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Medicine Wheel
MEDICINE WHEEL (Medicine Circle) - 1. Plains Indians way of life symbolizing a dynamic, spirallic understanding of the universe. 2. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gymnasium Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Gymnasium Ancient Greece - Development And Legacy
Gymnasium ancient Greece - Historical development. The gymnasium of the Greeks did not long remain an institution exclusively devoted t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyperus Rotundus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyperus Rotundus - Positive Aspects Of Cyperus Rotundus
Despite its bad reputation described above, Cyperus rotundus has several beneficial uses to man, as described below. Cyperus rotundus - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medicine Wheel: Encyclopedia Ii - Medicine Wheel - History
Erecting massive stone structures is a well-documented activity of ancient man, from the Egyptian pyramids to Stonehenge, and the natives...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine Wheel: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Medicine Wheel
Medicine Wheel 1.    Plains Indians' way of life symbolizing a dynamic, spirallic understanding of the universe. 2.&n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary Iv On Ayurveda
Ayurveda: Ayurveda: the ancient Indian science of  medicine.   (See also: Ayurveda , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Maharishi Ayurveda (mav): Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iii On Maharishi Ayurveda (mav)
Maharishi Ayurveda (MAV): The complete, consciousness-based system of natural medicine from the Vedic civilization of ancient India. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Siddha: Alternative Health Dictionary On Siddha
Siddha (Saiva school of medicine, Siddha medicine, Siddha system, Siddha system of medicine): Tamil system related to Ayurveda and of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Traditional Chinese Medicine: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Traditional Chinese Medicine
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE: The basis of much ancient healing wisdom which also shows a similarity to other traditional in both thou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Blood - Anatomy Of Blood
Blood is composed of several kinds of corpuscles; these formed elements of the blood constitute about 45% of whole blood. The other 55% i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Blood - Physiology Of Blood
Blood - Production and degradation. Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow; the process is termed hematopoiesis. The proteinaceous...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Blood - Mythology And Religion
Due to its importance to life, blood is associated with a large number of beliefs. One of the most basic is the use of blood as a symbol ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lomi-lomi: Alternative Health Dictionary On Lomi-lomi
lomi-lomi (Ancient Hawai'ian Bodywork, Lomi Lomi Nui): Prayerful type of massage practiced by kahunas (Hawaiian witch doctors).  ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quackery: Encyclopedia Ii - Quackery - History
Quackery, the peddling of unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medicines, cures or treatments, has existed throughout human history. In anc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Turmeric: Encyclopedia Ii - Turmeric - Medicine
The medicinal properties of the tumeric have for millennia been known to the ancient Indians and its medical properties have been expound...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cupping: Alternative Health Dictionary On Cupping
cupping (cupping method, cupping therapy; called the horn method in ancient China): Variable method akin to moxabustion.   The p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chromotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chromotherapy - History
Several findings indicate that colour and light have been used for health treatments since the beginning of recorded time. Colour therapy...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Ayurveda
Ayurveda: a system of the ancient knowledge (veda) of health and medicine that is so comprehensive it includes descriptions and drawin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Ayurveda
Ayurveda: The ancient system of Indian medicine formulated by the sage Dhanvantari and considered part of the Vedic revelation. &nbs...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aromatherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Aromatherapy
aromatherapy (aromatic medicine, conventional aromatherapy, holistic aromatherapy): Branch of herbal medicine that centers on using fr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Manipulative Medicine: Complementary Medicine Dictionary On Manipulative Medicine
MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE: Based on massage techniques and structural manipulation.######When used in the ancient Chinese way, the whole e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Unani: Alternative Health Dictionary On Unani
Unani (Unani medicine, Unani system of medicine, Unani Tibb): System based on the ancient Greek theory of four basic elements - air, e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypnotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypnotherapy - History
The roots of medicine by therapy lie in ancient societies even earlier than the Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Indians . Religious rituals...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anatomy In Ancient Times: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anatomy In Ancient Times - Hippocrates
With not much greater justice has the cultivation of anatomical knowledge been ascribed to Hippocrates, who, because he is universally al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dragon's Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Dragon's Blood - Uses
The dragon's blood known to the ancient Romans was mostly collected from D. cinnabari, and is mentioned in the 1st century Periplus (30:1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Legality
Since the twentieth century, most countries have laws against the cultivation, use, possession, or transfer of cannabis (and, naturally, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Immediate Effects Of Human Consumption
The nature and intensity of the immediate effects of cannabis consumption vary according to the dose, the species or hybridization of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Long-term Effects Of Human Consumption
Main article: Health issues and the effects of cannabis There is little conclusive scientific evidence about the long-term effects of hum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Medicinal Use
Medically, cannabis is most often used as an appetite stimulant and pain reliever for certain terminal illnesses such as cancer and AIDS....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Preparations For Human Consumption
Cannabis is prepared for human consumption in several forms: Marijuana or buds, the resin gland-rich flowering tops of female plants. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dna Repair: Encyclopedia Ii - Dna Repair - Dna Damage
DNA damage, due to normal metabolic processes inside the cell, occurs at a rate of 50,000 to 500,000 molecular lesions per cell per day. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dna Repair: Encyclopedia Ii - Dna Repair - Dna Repair Mechanisms
Cells cannot tolerate DNA damage that compromises the integrity and accessibility of essential information in the genome (but cells remai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dna Repair: Encyclopedia Ii - Dna Repair - Dna Repair In Disease And Aging
DNA repair - Poor DNA repair induces pathology. As cells get older, the amount of DNA damage accumulates overtaking the rate of repair ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dna Repair: Encyclopedia Ii - Dna Repair - Medicine & Dna Repair Modulation
A vast body of evidence correlates DNA damage to death and disease. As indicated by new overexpression studies, increasing the activity o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Preparations For Human Consumption
Cannabis is prepared for human consumption in several forms: Marijuana or buds, the resin gland-rich flowering tops of female plants. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Legality
Since the twentieth century, most countries have laws against the cultivation, use, possession, or transfer of cannabis (and, naturally, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - New Breeding And Cultivation Techniques
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques have increased the diversity and potency of cannabis strains over the last 20 years, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Immediate Effects Of Human Consumption
The nature and intensity of the immediate effects of cannabis consumption vary according to the dose, the species or hybridization of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Long-term Effects Of Human Consumption
Main article: Health issues and the effects of cannabis There is little conclusive scientific evidence about the long-term effects of hum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Medicinal Use
Medically, cannabis is most often used as an appetite stimulant and pain reliever for certain terminal illnesses such as cancer and AIDS....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ayurveda: Health And Healing Dictionary On Ayurveda
Ayurveda: (ancient Indian medicine, Vedic medicine): Ancient Hindu medical-metaphysical healing science based on the harmony of body, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mugwort: Encyclopedia Ii - Mugwort - Medicinal Properties
The root of the plant is used for medicinal purposes. Mugwort was used from ancient times as a remedy against fatigue and to protect trav...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Herbs: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Herbs
History of Herbs   The traditional definition of an herb is a non-woody plant that dies down to the ground after flowering. Howe...   » Read the article