Traditional wisdom

The practice of traditional medicine is widespread in Asian societies such as India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Bangladesh. Some 70 to 85 % of the population is dependent on traditional medicine in these countries. In Japan, preparations made from herbal dmgs (i.e., the kampo system of medicine) are more in demand than mainstream pharmaceutical products. Similarly, the traditional system of medicine is very popular on the African continent, which is very rich in medicinal herbs. Even in European countries, 1500 plant species of aromatic and medicinal plants are presently being used in countries such as Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, and United Kingdom. 

Two of the best developed and most widely used traditional medicinal systems, which are both well documented and rich in concept and practice, are the various Indian and Chinese systems of medicines. Among traditional Indian systems of medicine, the ayurvedic system has been the most popular and best known in the West. Ayurveda literally means knowledge or science of life. The system is based primarily on three classic texts known as samhitas, which were written by Sushruta, Charaka, and Vaghata in the period between 100 B.c. and 100 a.d. Ayurvedic physiology also views bodily functions in terms of three 

If we cast a closer look at most ancient and popular systems of medicine and methods of treatment, whether Chinese, Indian, or tribal, they generally aU use formulations based on parts of a single plant or a mixture of plants, sometimes as many as 20 to 40. In India alone, 40,000 different formulations comprising about 10,000 plants are being used. In other Asian, South Asian, and African countries, use of multiplant formulations is equally prevalent. 

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The use of two species in carcinogenicity studies is based on the traditional wisdom that no single species can be considered an adequate predictor of carcinogenic effects in humans. Absence of carcinogenic activity in two different species is thought to provide a greater level of confidence that a compound is safe for humans than data derived from a single species. 

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The traditional wisdom of quantum chemistry says that Hylleraas basis functions improve convergence due to the better handling of the cusp at short interelectronic distances. This conclusion is based on analysis and on many computations of ground states. For example, by 1960, it was known that small expansions could produce most of the correlation energy of the He and H2 ground states [56a, 56b]. 

The Persian word Sarmoung means both bee and purified head. It is associated with traditional wisdom and those that transmit the mysterious power of Zoroaster. Sufi adepts use the analogy to make a head of gold to refer to ritual alchemy. We shall see in Chapter 18 how the Knights Templar also revered a metal head. 

Where the work-related problems are attributable to aspects of the employee s character or personality, it is the traditional wisdom that there is little that can be done to alleviate the distress for either the individual or those with whom they are in conflict. However, exciting new developments in cognitive therapy have led to an innovative form of therapy called schema therapy, which specifically focuses on bringing about charactereological change. As far as the author is aware, this particular type of intervention is new to the field of occupational stress and has not previously been applied to occupational stress-related problems. The schema-focused approach is described in Part 3 of this book (Chapters 12-14). 

Volume 2 builds on the outstanding contributions by the authors of Volume 1. Drs. S. C. Taneja and G. N. Qazi provide a unique perspective on the therapeutic action of bioactive molecules in medicinal plants. Their group has several years of experience in prospecting natural products in plants and following up with the isolation, characterization and structure elucidation of natural products. The traditional medicinal systems such as Indian and Chinese and those used by African tribes are treasure houses of traditional wisdom, and with the help of modem scientific methods they will continue to be the basis of development of new therapeutic agents. These authors discuss comprehensively how this knowledge can be coupled with diversity-oriented synthesis to discover new therapeutic agents. 

Let us first consider the case of a finite number of degrees of freedom, say n = 1. The traditional wisdom is that observables are (represented... 

We now lake the attitude that the idealizations involved in these two models are not pathological, and that it is therefore relevant to understand these simple models in order to understand more sophisticated models. Furthermore, since we do not want to consider these models as pathological, we are confronted with the fact that their strange mathematical behavior must be due to some shortcoming of the formalism. More specifically, we are led to conclude that the traditional wisdom of quantum mechanics, as expressed in the Schrodinger-Fock formalism (Section IB), contains some mathematical assumption(s) which is (are) physically unwarranted. 

Traditional wisdom in the field of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics has it that one gets rid of recurrences, in the thermodynamic limit, because the spectrum of the Hamiltonian becomes dense or continuous. This kind of statement must be taken cum grano salts. First, it is next to impossible to exhibit, in the usual formalism, an operator that would be mathematically well defined and that would be obtained from a finite system Hamiltonian by the limiting procedures that Hilbert space techniques (as commonly used) have to offer. Second, if this problem were to be ignored for a while, it would still be of interest to know how dense or continuous things become in the thermodynamic limit. And third, it would be useful to link these how much questions and answers with the rate of approach to equilibrium. 

Traditional wisdom suggested that all accidents were preceded by ... 

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