Sentence examples for medicinal knowledge of from inspiring English sources

The brothers' main rules for the reservation were: keep other Brazilians and tourists out; do not impose white man's logic; do not meddle in village affairs, and, in more recent times, keep the medicinal knowledge of traditional healers out of the hands of so-called biotech pirates who sell such knowledge to pharmaceutical companies.

It may aggravate an existing disease (urinary-tract infection, peptic ulcer, hepatitis, epilepsy) or arouse one lying latent (hepatitis, fatty liver, Hodgkin's disease), but, to the best of present medicinal knowledge, it is altogether lacking in creative pathogenic powers.

The ancient Greeks gleaned much of their medicinal knowledge from Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Like our amorphous group of knitters' quiet contribution to history, these "Forgotten Women" formed the spine of medical and medicinal knowledge.

The plants were selected mainly on the basis of their local medicinal knowledge.

The use of aqueous extract was in accordance with the popular medicinal knowledge.

The medicinal ethnobotanical knowledge of Native Americans has been an important source for the identification of bioactive plants, and studies show a high degree of correlation between traditional medicinal uses and observed biological activity [ 5].

From antiquity, mankind has been developing a traditional medicinal system, based on the knowledge of medicinal plants throughout the world [8].

In this area, for example, a group known as the Kallawaya use Spanish or Quechua in daily life, but also have a secret tongue mainly for preserving knowledge of medicinal plants, some previously unknown to science.

No previous knowledge of medicinal chemistry is assumed.

In remote wilderness environments, local people with traditional knowledge of medicinal plants are potentially important first-line health care providers.