Researchers are studying Cajun and Creole folk medicine to see if it could be used in modern medicine, which begs the question — can medicine go retro? On a piece of land along Louisiana’s Atchafalaya ...

a story about how Norwegian home remedies were used to help save a young immigrant from losing his foot. The year was 1863. Mikkel Lokkensgaard was climbing into the attic of the family's cabin in ...

In Brazil, researchers from the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and São Paulo State University (UNESP) have conducted a study that confirmed ...

Infectious diseases including mumps, whooping cough, and scrofula (a neck swelling, often caused by tuberculosis) are more ...

Using herbs native to the region, Appalachian folk medicine is very much alive today. Its healing practices have trickled down from mountain folk to modern mainstream providers. “Herbal medicine has ...

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology in cooperation with the Medical History Division of the UCLA School of Medicine and the Society for the History of Medical ...

Not only can beliefs in cures based on folklore – such as traditional Chinese medicine – lead one to use ineffective or dangerous nostrums, they can also have a profound effect on the wildlife that's ...

In dealing with the competition between folk and modern medicine, we have tended to stress the broad, often systemic functions of folk health complexes. The present paper suggests that the wider the ...

Modern medicine has its roots in old-fashioned folk medicine. Today though, modern medicine feels pretty distant from whatever folk traditions have stuck around, and it's easy to assume they don't ...

Elecampane root is an herbal supplement used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Available research suggests it has potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and even potential anticancer properties. It ...