Potent Plants, Cool Hearts: a landscape of healing in Laos

EM Elliott - 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This thesis maps a landscape of healing in southern lowland Laos, demonstrating how
traditional medicine and health practices engage with and occur within the local …

Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos

BG Elkington, DD Soejarto, K Sydara - 2014 - Springer
Because the majority of the population of Laos lives in rural areas with limited access to
biomedical healthcare, traditional herbal remedies are frequently used. Old Buddhist palm …

Ethnobotany

BG Elkington, DD Soejarto, K Sydara… - … of Tuberculosis in Laos, 2014 - Springer
It is to be remembered that this research focused on tuberculosis (TB), and in a rural setting,
it would be unlikely to concretely diagnose TB, as opposed to other respiratory ailments. The …

Introduction and Background

BG Elkington, DD Soejarto, K Sydara… - … of Tuberculosis in Laos, 2014 - Springer
Because the majority of the population of Laos lives in rural areas with limited access to
biomedical healthcare, traditional herbal remedies are frequently used. Old Buddhist palm …

Biochemical Validation

BG Elkington, DD Soejarto, K Sydara… - … of Tuberculosis in Laos, 2014 - Springer
This section describes our endeavor to provide biochemical validation and to demonstrate
the efficacy of plants used in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the past as recorded in the …