The study concerns the first-hand information gathered during ethnomedicinal surveys in Nasik district, Maharashtra, of plants traditionally used by aborigines and rural folks for the treatment of gynecological, genital and other related aspects. Uses of 25 angiospermic species belonging to 22 population. The paper gives botanical identity, family, local name, collection number and mode of admi...

The study concerns the first -hand information on 50 ethnomedicinal plants traditional used by aborigines and rural folks of Nasik district, Maharashtra, for the treatment of various human ailments and disorders. The paper gives botanical identity, local name, family and mode of administration.

Over the past 400 years, Taiwan's indigenous people annual rituals have been lost due to assimilation of foreign regimes and influence modern urbanization. However, under social life style political power, became performance their original significance. But also because its regeneration, culture has revitalized, role identity continuity. restoration rituals, aborigines recognition continuity ge...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a spindle cell malignancy of endothelial cell origin. The tumor has been demonstrated to be associated with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) or Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like virus (KSHV). Previous studies have revealed the distribution of unique viral strains in different ethnic populations. Eastern Taiwan has an ethnically mixed populat...

Material from 334 consecutive autopsies on Orang Asli subjects performed in the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur between May 1967 and June 1978 was examined for amyloidosis. Nine positive cases were found, all in patients above 40 years of age, giving an age-corrected incidence of about 9%. In 6 cases, amyloidosis was probably secondary to tuberculosis. The remaining 3 cases exhibited a perico...