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Folk Medicine

and Curing

See also Food as Medicine

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In the News . . .

• Moon bears: Korean campaigners call for farm closures -- BBCNews (21 July 2020)
  
  
• China's Latest Virus Outbreak Exposes Perils of Exotic Wildlife Trade -- Reuters (23 January 2020)
  
  
• Food is medicine – so why aren't our doctors trained in the science of nutrition? -- Dr Rupy Aujla, The Telegraph (05 January 2018)
  
  
• Researchers Cooperate with ‘Medicine Men’ -- ScienceNordic (26 September 2013)
  
  

• Ancient Chinese Remedy May Work for Flu -- LiveScience (10 September 2009)
  
  
• Ancient DNA Reveals Ingredients of Roman Medicine -- Nature (09 September 2010)
  
  
• Ancient Tattoos Linked to Healing Ritual -- NewScientist (08 October 2010)
  
  
• Cleopatra's Eye Make-Up 'Had Health Benefits' -- BBC News (08 January 2010)
  
  
• Index of Medieval Medical Images -- UCLA Digital Library
  
  
• Medline Plus: Herbal Medicine -- U.S. National Library of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  
  
• New study on acupuncture contains promising findings -- The Scout Report, June 4, 2010 | Volume 16, Number 22
  
  
• Online Archive of American Folk Medicine -- UCLA
  
  
• Plants Found in Ancient Pills offer Medicinal Insight -- BBC News (27 April 2011)
  
  
• A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature -- University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center
  
  
• Wilkins, John. M. and Shaun Hill. Food in the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
  
  

Chippewa medicine man singer with ceremonial turtle clan drum.
Photograph Collection, 1900
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. E97.37 p20 Negative No. 21120