Pharmacological actions of Cordyceps, a prized folk medicine

The Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Actions of Cordyceps sinensis

Cordyceps sinensis, also called DongChongXiaCao (winter worm, summer grass) in Chinese, is becoming increasingly popular and important in the public and scientific communities. This study summarizes the chemical constituents and their corresponding pharmacological actions of Cordyceps sinensis. Many bioactive components of Cordyceps sinensis have been extracted including nucleoside, polysacchar...

American folk medicine. A symposium

A Folk Theorem with Virtually Enforceable Actions

We prove a Folk Theorem for infinitely repeated private monitoring games with virtually enforceable actions. In these monitoring situations with scarce signals, players need to depart from the efficient outcome occasionally to acquire the information that detects the profitable deviations of the others. We design a novel Budget Mechanism with Cross-Checking (BMCC) in a finite horizon setting wi...

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...

Sicilian folk medicine