Sentence examples for folk methods from inspiring English sources

-- not much scientific evidence surrounding folk methods like drinking warm milk or counting sheep.

In fact, a recent qualitative study conducted in different settings shows that a lot of Vietnamese women still rely on various folk methods –ranging from specific food diets to appropriate coital positions– to ensure the birth of a son [22].

Provision was also made in the questionnaire to record any other methods mentioned by the respondent, including folk methods.

The level of detail provided in the dataset for traditional methods also varied by country, but these methods consisted primarily of withdrawal, periodic abstinence, and folk methods.

Folk food and herbal remedies included functional foods and herbal infusions that belonged to the Lebanese folk methods of healing and were available in traditional herbal stores.

Following DHS methods, the term "family planning" includes female/male sterilization, pill, intrauterine devices, injectables, implants, condoms, lactational amenorrhea, emergency contraception, as well as the rhythm and withdrawal method or any "folk method" mentioned by the respondent.

By experience and folk memory, methods of husbandry were evolved whereby domestic livestock could be maintained in strictly defined areas.

Folk divination methods can be done for fun in the evening, for example peeling an apple with a knife, so that the peel stays in one piece.

According to some old folk healing methods, you should cut a 'V' shape in the top of the infected toenail to relieve the pressure, which in turn will heal the nail.

By the 90's, 80percentt of all American women born since 1945 had tried the Pill, but steriliation, including vasectomy, had become the No. 1 choice of married folk, while barrier methods that protect against sexually transmitted diseases - especially condoms - have gained favor among the not necessarily monogamous.

On the basis of grain-size measurements of samples, each of the granulometric parameters (mean grain size μ, sorting σ, skewness S k, and kurtosis kt) is generated by the moment method (Folk 1966; Harrington 1967), as follows: mu =sum pd (1).