Background. This study investigates the prevalence of and factors associated with users of folk therapy in Taiwan. Methods. Using data from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey and the National Health Insurance Research Database, we identified 16,750 adults aged 20 years and older. Sociodemographic factors, lifestyle, medical utilization, and health behaviors were compared between people u...

BACKGROUND We report a survey of the content of obsessions in children with autism spectrum conditions. We use the term 'obsessions' narrowly, to indicate strong, repetitive interests. We predicted that obsessions would not cluster randomly, but rather would occur significantly more often in the domain of 'folk physics' (an interest in how things work), and significantly less often in the domai...

This research aims to determine the value themes in examples of Turkish Folk Music registered TRT repertoire and whose source person is Aşık Davut Sulari raise awareness context use our within scope values education given Music, Literature courses. 
 The material group study consists 18 folk songs Sulari. These songs, which constitute central theme study, were determined through a literatu...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognised the potential utility of traditional remedies and strives to preserve the primary health care involving medicinal plants. In various parts of Algeria, especially in the arid region, medicinal plants are widely used as an alternative to pharmaceutical drugs; the folk medicine represents a very important phenomenon in regional culture. Continuing...

PURPOSE We developed an adverse events (AEs) reporting form for Korean folk medicine. METHODS The first version of the form was developed and tested in the clinical setting for spontaneous reporting of AEs. Additional revisions to the reporting form were made based on collected data and expert input. RESULTS We developed an AEs reporting form for Korean folk medicine. The items of this form...

As folk songs live largely through oral transmission, there usually is no standard form of a song each performance of a folk song may be unique. Different interpretations of the same song are called song variants, all variants of a song belong to the same variant type. In the paper, we explore how various melody-based features relate to folk song variants. Specifically, we explore whether we ca...

This article discusses the historical basis of creation symbolic images associated with color in Uzbek literature, role folklore folklore. Symbolic serve to enhance art, charm and impact folk songs. In songs, symbols have been explored using examples as a means expressing ideas clearly, succinctly, figuratively.