folk medicine
民间医药,民间医学,民间医疗,民间药物
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- : health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
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The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
Some will be avoiding New Year festivities entirely—and very sensible folk they are too.
If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.
There are some folk in this country, you know, who manifest a very retiring disposition at times.
It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
Most of the feathered folk agreed that Mr. Blackbird ought not to have spokenp.
Mademoiselle snatched it from the hand, which was very tiny, and pink, with dimples where grown up folk have knuckles.
Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.