Wounded Healer

Halifax, J. Shaman The Wounded Healer. New York Crossroad, 1982. 

In the Canary Islands, various species of Hypericum genus have been used in folkloric medicine as a vermifuge, diuretic, and wound healer, as well as a sedative, antihysteric, and antidepressant agent [117]. 

Halifax,. 1981, Shaman The Wounded Healer. (The Illustrated Library of Sacred Imagination . Puree, Ed.) Crossroad, New %rk. Translated into German, 1983. Scha-manen. Frankfurt, Germany. 

Extensive profiling needs to be done for M. pudica which will elucidate the compounds showing particular activities like anti-diabetic activity. Various literatures clearly support anti-diabetic and diabetes related complications along with various others stated above. The use of major bioactives from M. pudica on the lowering of diabetic markers was found to be exploitable based on the literatures reviewed below in course of this discussion. The plant was found to be able to work as anti-diabetic, hypolipidemic, wound healer, anti-oxidant and free radical scavenger among other uses of this plant (see Table 3). 

Folk healers prescribe kava everywhere the drink is consumed. Island pharmacists gather various parts of the plant, including the root, leaves, bark, stems, and their juices. Treatments include infusions and also poultices of leaf, stem, or root applied to the body. Observers have recorded uses of kava to treat a range of conditions. These include urogenital and menstrual problems, headaches and migraines, asthma and other respiratory problems, toothache, boils, sores and wounds, conjunctivitis, both diarrhea and constipation, earache, sore throat, sleeping difficulties, leprosy and other skin diseases, and more (Lebot etal., 1992 Kilham, 1996). Kava, occasionally, served also as an abortifacient (Riesenberg, 1968). 

A source with somewhat lower intensity hut with longer life than the Globar or Nernst glower is a lightly wound spiral of nichrome wire heated to about 1100 K by an electrical current. A rhodium wire healer sealed in a ceramic cylinder has simil.ir properties, although it is more expensive. Nichrome wire stturees ire less... 

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