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folk medicine

民间医药,民间医学,民间医疗,民间药物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.

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Examples

  • 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.