Posts Tagged ‘Medicine’
Depressed, anxious older people turn more often to alternative medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), such as herbal medicine, acupuncture or meditation, is popular among older people. A new survey from scientists at Wake Forest University suggests that depressed anxious older people turn more often to …
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Alternative medicine clinic owner defends business
The owner of Source alternative medicine clinic testified at a second day of a hearing to determine the popular Black Mountain business' fate. Owner Whitney Madden testified for more than two hours, answering questions from attorneys and members of the …
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Alternative medicine directory Jill's List acquired by California-based Mindbody
Jill's List had created a network of more than 4,000 alternative medicine practitioners like acupuncturists and masseuses, and helped employees with flexible spending accounts or health savings account find the right practitioner for their needs, book …
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Some cool alternative medicine images:
Under leaves of Acrostichum aureum …Bên dưới lá của cây Ráng, Ráng Đại ….
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Vietnamese named : Ráng, Ráng Đại
English name : Golden Leather Fern, Swamp Fern, Mangrove Ferrn
Scientist name : Acrostichum aureum Linn.
Family : Pteridaceae. Họ Ráng
Searched from :
**** TRUNG TÂM DỮ LIỆU THỰC VẬT VIETNAM
www.botanyvn.com/cnt.asp?param=edir&v=Acrostichum%20a…
Tên Khoa học: Acrostichum aureum L.
Tên tiếng Anh:
Tên tiếng Việt: Ráng biển thường
**** MEKONG INFO. ORG.
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Acrostichum aureum L.
PTERIDIACEAE
Ráng, Ráng đại
Hình dáng : Loài Dương xỉ, có thân rễ (củ) ngắn, to, thẳng đứng, nhiều ngó.
Lá : Lá kép lông chim 1 lần, cao đến 3m; thứ diệp dài đến 40cm, dày không lông, mép nguyên, gân phụ hình nang, dưới cuống chính mang nhiều gai giả do các cuống phụ biến thành. Lá thụ ở thân với các nang quần màu nâu đỏ phủ khắp mặt dưới, trừ gần giữa và mép lá.
Nơi sống : Mọc hoang ở bờ rạch, đầm nước mặn từ Bắc đến Nam, thuộc loài ưa sáng và đất mùn
**** VIETGLE.VN.
vietgle.com.vn/trithucviet/detail.aspx?pid=NzhDRjA5MDMwNg…
Acrostichum aureum L.- Ráng biển, Ráng dại, Quán chúng.
Cây có thân rễ ngắn, to, thẳng đứng, nhiều ngó. Lá kép lông chim một lần, cao đến 3m; lá chét dài đến 40cm, dày, không lông, mép nguyên, gân phụ hình mạng; dưới cuống chính có nhiều gai giả do các cuống phụ biến thành.
Lá sinh sản ở thân với các ổ túi màu nâu đỏ phủ khắp mặt dưới, trừ ở gân và mép lá.
Loài liên nhiệt đới. Phổ biến ở vùng có nước mặn từ Bắc chí Nam của Việt Nam.
Cây mọc hoang ở bờ rạch, đầm nước mặn, nước lợ hay còn triều, nơi sáng và đất có nhiều mùn.
Đọt non luộc ăn được, cuống lá khô dùng làm chổi; còn dùng đan làm làn xách tay. Thân, lá sắc uống sát trùng, trừ giun sán và cầm máu.
Ở Pháp, cây được trồng làm cảnh.
______________________________________________________
**** PHILIPPINE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
www.stuartxchange.org/Lagolo.html
Lagolo
Acrostichum aureum Linn.
GOLDEN LEATHER FERN
Botany
The plant is a coarse fern growing to a height of 2 meters. Rootstocks are stout, woody and scaly. Stipes are clustered, stout and glabrous, 30 to 50 cm long. Fronds are leathery, pinnate, 50-200 cm long. Leaflets are 20 to 50 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide. Fertile upper pinnae are smaller than the lower sterile ones.
Distribution
Abundant in open mud flats, in mangove swamps, and along tidal streams.
Parts utilized
Leaves, roots, rhizomes.
Properties and constituents
• Phytochemical studies have yielded beta-sitosterol, alkaloid, flavonoids, phenolics, catechins, saponins, tannins.
Uses
Folkloric
• Rhizomes are used for the healing of stubborn ulcers.
• Leaves used topically as emollient.
• In Malaya and Borneo, powdered or grated rhizomes applied as paste to wounds and boils.
• Fronds and roots are applied to syphilitic ulcers.
• In Fiji, used for sore throat, chest pains and elephantiasis, for constipation and as purgative; also, as febrifuge.
• In Bangladesh, leaves used for cloudy urination in women.
Studies
• Cytotoxic: Study of 16 listed Bangladeshi plants, screened against human gastric, colon, and breast cancer cell lines, Acrostichum aureus showed the most potent selective cytotoxicity.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
**** PLANTS.USDA.GOV.
plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ACAU3
**** SMS.SI.EDU.
www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Acrost_aureum.htm
Description:
Acrostichum aureum, the golden leather fern, is a large understory fern that occurs in mangrove forests and other wetlands. Plants measure 4 – 6 feet in height and are as broad as they are tall. Fronds are usually arching around the edges of the plant, but tend to be more erect near the center. The thick, leathery leaves are compound and large, measuring over 3.3 feet in length, and 9 – 20 inches in width. There are 24 – 30 pairs of alternate leaflets (pinnae) that are non-overlapping, rounded at the tips, and measure 4- 13 inches in length X 0.5 – 2.8 inches in width. Leaves are shiny and typically dark green above, but paler on the leaf underside. Leaf margins are somewhat uneven and wavy in appearance. No sori are present on the leaf undersides as occurs in other ferns. Rather, reproductive leaves acquire a felt-like texture to them as spore-producing cells are distributed over the entire underleaf surface. Spore-producing cells are brick red to rust red in color, and release tny spores, measuring no larger tha 3/1000 of an inch in diameter.
Habitat:
Golden leather ferns occur Worldwide in mangrove swamps, salt marshes, low hammocks, and canal margins.
Similar Species:
A related species, the giant leather fern, Acrostichum danaefolium, is similar in appearance, but grows larger, with fronds generally 6.6 feet or more in length and leaflets set closer together. A more definitive characteristic is the location of reproductives leaves on the plant. In the golden leather fern, reproductive leaflets only occur on the outmost parts of fronds, perhaps the 5-7 top pairs of leaflets. In the giant lether fern, leaflets are reproductive throughout the frond.
Range:
Acrostichum aureum occurs in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. In the continental United States, it is restricted to wetland areas in south and southwestern Florida. Not present in most IRL Counties. It is present but not common in Martin county.
**** MANGROVE.NUS.SG.
mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1038.htm
Piai raya
Acrostichum aureum
Class Filicopsida, Family Pteridaceae
Pantropical. Locally, in various northern areas (including reclaimed sites). Rhizomes and base of the leaf stalks covered with scales up to 4 cm long; leaves pinnate, to about 4 m long, bright red when young; fertile leaflets at the tip are covered with red-brown sporangia, blades of sterile leaflets have a broadly rounded end terminated with a short tip.
On the landward side of mangrove swamps or non-mangrove seaside areas including reclaimed land; not as tolerant of flooding as Acrostichum speciosum.
Dried parchment-like fronds were used as roof thatching which are durable and less of a fire hazard. Pounded rhizomes are used to treat wounds and boils. Common.
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**** FLICKR : RIATAN
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Leaves of Acrostichum aureum …Lá của cây Ráng , Ráng Đại …
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Vietnamese named : Ráng, Ráng Đại
English name : Golden Leather Fern, Swamp Fern, Mangrove Ferrn
Scientist name : Acrostichum aureum Linn.
Family : Pteridaceae. Họ Ráng
Searched from :
**** TRUNG TÂM DỮ LIỆU THỰC VẬT VIETNAM
www.botanyvn.com/cnt.asp?param=edir&v=Acrostichum%20a…
Tên Khoa học: Acrostichum aureum L.
Tên tiếng Anh:
Tên tiếng Việt: Ráng biển thường
**** MEKONG INFO. ORG.
www.mekonginfo.org/mrc_en/contact.nsf/0/8902a71a698a3de18…
Acrostichum aureum L.
PTERIDIACEAE
Ráng, Ráng đại
Hình dáng : Loài Dương xỉ, có thân rễ (củ) ngắn, to, thẳng đứng, nhiều ngó.
Lá : Lá kép lông chim 1 lần, cao đến 3m; thứ diệp dài đến 40cm, dày không lông, mép nguyên, gân phụ hình nang, dưới cuống chính mang nhiều gai giả do các cuống phụ biến thành. Lá thụ ở thân với các nang quần màu nâu đỏ phủ khắp mặt dưới, trừ gần giữa và mép lá.
Nơi sống : Mọc hoang ở bờ rạch, đầm nước mặn từ Bắc đến Nam, thuộc loài ưa sáng và đất mùn
**** VIETGLE.VN.
vietgle.com.vn/trithucviet/detail.aspx?pid=NzhDRjA5MDMwNg…
Acrostichum aureum L.- Ráng biển, Ráng dại, Quán chúng.
Cây có thân rễ ngắn, to, thẳng đứng, nhiều ngó. Lá kép lông chim một lần, cao đến 3m; lá chét dài đến 40cm, dày, không lông, mép nguyên, gân phụ hình mạng; dưới cuống chính có nhiều gai giả do các cuống phụ biến thành.
Lá sinh sản ở thân với các ổ túi màu nâu đỏ phủ khắp mặt dưới, trừ ở gân và mép lá.
Loài liên nhiệt đới. Phổ biến ở vùng có nước mặn từ Bắc chí Nam của Việt Nam.
Cây mọc hoang ở bờ rạch, đầm nước mặn, nước lợ hay còn triều, nơi sáng và đất có nhiều mùn.
Đọt non luộc ăn được, cuống lá khô dùng làm chổi; còn dùng đan làm làn xách tay. Thân, lá sắc uống sát trùng, trừ giun sán và cầm máu.
Ở Pháp, cây được trồng làm cảnh.
______________________________________________________
**** PHILIPPINE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
www.stuartxchange.org/Lagolo.html
Lagolo
Acrostichum aureum Linn.
GOLDEN LEATHER FERN
Botany
The plant is a coarse fern growing to a height of 2 meters. Rootstocks are stout, woody and scaly. Stipes are clustered, stout and glabrous, 30 to 50 cm long. Fronds are leathery, pinnate, 50-200 cm long. Leaflets are 20 to 50 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide. Fertile upper pinnae are smaller than the lower sterile ones.
Distribution
Abundant in open mud flats, in mangove swamps, and along tidal streams.
Parts utilized
Leaves, roots, rhizomes.
Properties and constituents
• Phytochemical studies have yielded beta-sitosterol, alkaloid, flavonoids, phenolics, catechins, saponins, tannins.
Uses
Folkloric
• Rhizomes are used for the healing of stubborn ulcers.
• Leaves used topically as emollient.
• In Malaya and Borneo, powdered or grated rhizomes applied as paste to wounds and boils.
• Fronds and roots are applied to syphilitic ulcers.
• In Fiji, used for sore throat, chest pains and elephantiasis, for constipation and as purgative; also, as febrifuge.
• In Bangladesh, leaves used for cloudy urination in women.
Studies
• Cytotoxic: Study of 16 listed Bangladeshi plants, screened against human gastric, colon, and breast cancer cell lines, Acrostichum aureus showed the most potent selective cytotoxicity.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
**** PLANTS.USDA.GOV.
plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ACAU3
**** SMS.SI.EDU.
www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Acrost_aureum.htm
Description:
Acrostichum aureum, the golden leather fern, is a large understory fern that occurs in mangrove forests and other wetlands. Plants measure 4 – 6 feet in height and are as broad as they are tall. Fronds are usually arching around the edges of the plant, but tend to be more erect near the center. The thick, leathery leaves are compound and large, measuring over 3.3 feet in length, and 9 – 20 inches in width. There are 24 – 30 pairs of alternate leaflets (pinnae) that are non-overlapping, rounded at the tips, and measure 4- 13 inches in length X 0.5 – 2.8 inches in width. Leaves are shiny and typically dark green above, but paler on the leaf underside. Leaf margins are somewhat uneven and wavy in appearance. No sori are present on the leaf undersides as occurs in other ferns. Rather, reproductive leaves acquire a felt-like texture to them as spore-producing cells are distributed over the entire underleaf surface. Spore-producing cells are brick red to rust red in color, and release tny spores, measuring no larger tha 3/1000 of an inch in diameter.
Habitat:
Golden leather ferns occur Worldwide in mangrove swamps, salt marshes, low hammocks, and canal margins.
Similar Species:
A related species, the giant leather fern, Acrostichum danaefolium, is similar in appearance, but grows larger, with fronds generally 6.6 feet or more in length and leaflets set closer together. A more definitive characteristic is the location of reproductives leaves on the plant. In the golden leather fern, reproductive leaflets only occur on the outmost parts of fronds, perhaps the 5-7 top pairs of leaflets. In the giant lether fern, leaflets are reproductive throughout the frond.
Range:
Acrostichum aureum occurs in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. In the continental United States, it is restricted to wetland areas in south and southwestern Florida. Not present in most IRL Counties. It is present but not common in Martin county.
**** MANGROVE.NUS.SG.
mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1038.htm
Piai raya
Acrostichum aureum
Class Filicopsida, Family Pteridaceae
Pantropical. Locally, in various northern areas (including reclaimed sites). Rhizomes and base of the leaf stalks covered with scales up to 4 cm long; leaves pinnate, to about 4 m long, bright red when young; fertile leaflets at the tip are covered with red-brown sporangia, blades of sterile leaflets have a broadly rounded end terminated with a short tip.
On the landward side of mangrove swamps or non-mangrove seaside areas including reclaimed land; not as tolerant of flooding as Acrostichum speciosum.
Dried parchment-like fronds were used as roof thatching which are durable and less of a fire hazard. Pounded rhizomes are used to treat wounds and boils. Common.
**** WILD SINGAPORE
www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/plants/mangrove/acrostich…
**** FLICKR : RIATAN
www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3536259298/
Under leaf of Acrostichum aureum …Bên dưới lá của cây Ráng, Ráng Đại ….
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Vietnamese named : Ráng, Ráng Đại
English name : Golden Leather Fern, Swamp Fern, Mangrove Ferrn
Scientist name : Acrostichum aureum Linn.
Family : Pteridaceae. Họ Ráng
Searched from :
**** TRUNG TÂM DỮ LIỆU THỰC VẬT VIETNAM
www.botanyvn.com/cnt.asp?param=edir&v=Acrostichum%20a…
Tên Khoa học: Acrostichum aureum L.
Tên tiếng Anh:
Tên tiếng Việt: Ráng biển thường
**** MEKONG INFO. ORG.
www.mekonginfo.org/mrc_en/contact.nsf/0/8902a71a698a3de18…
Acrostichum aureum L.
PTERIDIACEAE
Ráng, Ráng đại
Hình dáng : Loài Dương xỉ, có thân rễ (củ) ngắn, to, thẳng đứng, nhiều ngó.
Lá : Lá kép lông chim 1 lần, cao đến 3m; thứ diệp dài đến 40cm, dày không lông, mép nguyên, gân phụ hình nang, dưới cuống chính mang nhiều gai giả do các cuống phụ biến thành. Lá thụ ở thân với các nang quần màu nâu đỏ phủ khắp mặt dưới, trừ gần giữa và mép lá.
Nơi sống : Mọc hoang ở bờ rạch, đầm nước mặn từ Bắc đến Nam, thuộc loài ưa sáng và đất mùn
**** VIETGLE.VN.
vietgle.com.vn/trithucviet/detail.aspx?pid=NzhDRjA5MDMwNg…
Acrostichum aureum L.- Ráng biển, Ráng dại, Quán chúng.
Cây có thân rễ ngắn, to, thẳng đứng, nhiều ngó. Lá kép lông chim một lần, cao đến 3m; lá chét dài đến 40cm, dày, không lông, mép nguyên, gân phụ hình mạng; dưới cuống chính có nhiều gai giả do các cuống phụ biến thành.
Lá sinh sản ở thân với các ổ túi màu nâu đỏ phủ khắp mặt dưới, trừ ở gân và mép lá.
Loài liên nhiệt đới. Phổ biến ở vùng có nước mặn từ Bắc chí Nam của Việt Nam.
Cây mọc hoang ở bờ rạch, đầm nước mặn, nước lợ hay còn triều, nơi sáng và đất có nhiều mùn.
Đọt non luộc ăn được, cuống lá khô dùng làm chổi; còn dùng đan làm làn xách tay. Thân, lá sắc uống sát trùng, trừ giun sán và cầm máu.
Ở Pháp, cây được trồng làm cảnh.
______________________________________________________
**** PHILIPPINE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
www.stuartxchange.org/Lagolo.html
Lagolo
Acrostichum aureum Linn.
GOLDEN LEATHER FERN
Botany
The plant is a coarse fern growing to a height of 2 meters. Rootstocks are stout, woody and scaly. Stipes are clustered, stout and glabrous, 30 to 50 cm long. Fronds are leathery, pinnate, 50-200 cm long. Leaflets are 20 to 50 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide. Fertile upper pinnae are smaller than the lower sterile ones.
Distribution
Abundant in open mud flats, in mangove swamps, and along tidal streams.
Parts utilized
Leaves, roots, rhizomes.
Properties and constituents
• Phytochemical studies have yielded beta-sitosterol, alkaloid, flavonoids, phenolics, catechins, saponins, tannins.
Uses
Folkloric
• Rhizomes are used for the healing of stubborn ulcers.
• Leaves used topically as emollient.
• In Malaya and Borneo, powdered or grated rhizomes applied as paste to wounds and boils.
• Fronds and roots are applied to syphilitic ulcers.
• In Fiji, used for sore throat, chest pains and elephantiasis, for constipation and as purgative; also, as febrifuge.
• In Bangladesh, leaves used for cloudy urination in women.
Studies
• Cytotoxic: Study of 16 listed Bangladeshi plants, screened against human gastric, colon, and breast cancer cell lines, Acrostichum aureus showed the most potent selective cytotoxicity.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
**** PLANTS.USDA.GOV.
plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ACAU3
**** SMS.SI.EDU.
www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Acrost_aureum.htm
Description:
Acrostichum aureum, the golden leather fern, is a large understory fern that occurs in mangrove forests and other wetlands. Plants measure 4 – 6 feet in height and are as broad as they are tall. Fronds are usually arching around the edges of the plant, but tend to be more erect near the center. The thick, leathery leaves are compound and large, measuring over 3.3 feet in length, and 9 – 20 inches in width. There are 24 – 30 pairs of alternate leaflets (pinnae) that are non-overlapping, rounded at the tips, and measure 4- 13 inches in length X 0.5 – 2.8 inches in width. Leaves are shiny and typically dark green above, but paler on the leaf underside. Leaf margins are somewhat uneven and wavy in appearance. No sori are present on the leaf undersides as occurs in other ferns. Rather, reproductive leaves acquire a felt-like texture to them as spore-producing cells are distributed over the entire underleaf surface. Spore-producing cells are brick red to rust red in color, and release tny spores, measuring no larger tha 3/1000 of an inch in diameter.
Habitat:
Golden leather ferns occur Worldwide in mangrove swamps, salt marshes, low hammocks, and canal margins.
Similar Species:
A related species, the giant leather fern, Acrostichum danaefolium, is similar in appearance, but grows larger, with fronds generally 6.6 feet or more in length and leaflets set closer together. A more definitive characteristic is the location of reproductives leaves on the plant. In the golden leather fern, reproductive leaflets only occur on the outmost parts of fronds, perhaps the 5-7 top pairs of leaflets. In the giant lether fern, leaflets are reproductive throughout the frond.
Range:
Acrostichum aureum occurs in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. In the continental United States, it is restricted to wetland areas in south and southwestern Florida. Not present in most IRL Counties. It is present but not common in Martin county.
**** MANGROVE.NUS.SG.
mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1038.htm
Piai raya
Acrostichum aureum
Class Filicopsida, Family Pteridaceae
Pantropical. Locally, in various northern areas (including reclaimed sites). Rhizomes and base of the leaf stalks covered with scales up to 4 cm long; leaves pinnate, to about 4 m long, bright red when young; fertile leaflets at the tip are covered with red-brown sporangia, blades of sterile leaflets have a broadly rounded end terminated with a short tip.
On the landward side of mangrove swamps or non-mangrove seaside areas including reclaimed land; not as tolerant of flooding as Acrostichum speciosum.
Dried parchment-like fronds were used as roof thatching which are durable and less of a fire hazard. Pounded rhizomes are used to treat wounds and boils. Common.
**** WILD SINGAPORE
www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/plants/mangrove/acrostich…
**** FLICKR : RIATAN
www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3536259298/
Opinion: Questioning the role of medicine
Most science-based professionals would go ballistic at any notion of folk medicines being more touted as potentially more effective than modern medicine. But, let’s consider the writings of contrarians from within the medical establishment. In his book …
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Question by : what do the Jehovah Witnesses and other religions think of alternative medicine?
This is a question to Jehovah Witnesses and other religions aswell
What do you think of alternative medicine such as chinese herbal medicine, natropathy, reiki, crystal healing, flower essences healing. Do you think these are against God and if they were then why are all these stuff in nature, the nature that God created for our use?
I know some religions say they are against it like crystals cos it’s pagan, but how is it pagan when they are from the earth?
Best answer:
Answer by Anon.
According to the Bible, you must pray and lay hands on sick people.
So, really, all medicine is a “sin”
What do you think? Answer below!
Meditation the Medicine for Spiritual Health “…childlikeness is compared again and again to meditation. Meditation would not have been needed if people had…
Medical staff presenting alternative medicine programs
WESTERLY — The Westerly Hospital is sponsoring a free, two-part discussion on “Topics in Alternative Medicine” presented by two members of The Westerly Hospital's medical staff. The program will be held May 22 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Henry J.
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Treating Cancer With Art: 5 Alternative Therapies That Heal Cancer Symptoms
Writing therapy provides cancer patients with the ability to write their own feelings about the treatment they undergo. It is a method to track their symptoms, reactions, and interactions with the medical staff. This provides an alternative to the …
Read more on Medical Daily
67% of alternative medicine users are women
More and more patients are turning toward alternative medicine because modern medicine is expensive and has failed to treat diseases such as cancer, said Abdullah Al-Badah, executive director of the national society for complementary and alternative …
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