Sentence examples for medicinal virtues from inspiring English sources

It was largely prescribed in traditional medicine for its multiple medicinal virtues in tropical Africa.

Meanwhile the new sciences questioned the medicinal virtues of spices.

He knows and uses the names they use: an apple becomes a "poddle"; Lee and Freda discuss the medicinal virtues of a "Bog Whortle".

To its credit, the British Government three months ago began an initial protest about the situation, and at a committee meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) put forward a request – on behalf of the whole European Union – for Asian nations to mount awareness-raising campaigns, pointing out rhino horn's non-existent medicinal virtues.

It is at once a treatise on the medicinal virtues of tar-water (a mixture of water and pine tar), its making and dosage, and a philosopher's vision of a chain of being, "a gradual evolution or ascent" from the world of sense to "the mind, her acts and faculties" and, thence, to the supernatural and God, the three in one.

We can date this treatise on plants to the first half of the second century or earlier, since Cato the elder (234 149 BCE) appears to make use of it in his On Agriculture (157), when he discusses the medicinal virtues of a kind of cabbage, which was named after Pythagoras (brassica Pythagorea).

Our focus had been to highlight the medicinal value and virtues of the isolated phytochemicals by discussing the various measured biological activities and evaluating the "drug-like" properties by use of Lipinski's "Rule of Five" [ 44].

The best example of spirits being seen as having medicinal properties is '40 Virtues of Armagnac' which was published in 1310 by Prior Vital Dufour and still remains in the archives of the Vatican to this day.

Expressed more elaborately – it is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their virtues (properties)  – and in particular their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them.

In the European Middle Ages of the 15th and 16th centuries the lives of European citizens were based around agriculture but when printing arrived, with movable type and woodcut illustrations, it was not treatises on agriculture that were published, but lists of medicinal plants with descriptions of their properties or "virtues".

Samuel Brown, a surgeon in the hospital in the late seventeenth century, spent most of his time collecting medicinal plants from the neighboring forests and discussing their virtues with the "locals".