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  2. Mummia - Wikipedia

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    Mummia, mumia, or originally mummy referred to several different preparations in the history of medicine, from "mineral pitch" to "powdered human mummies". It originated from Arabic mūmiyā "a type of resinous bitumen found in Western Asia and used curatively" in traditional Islamic medicine , which was translated as pissasphaltus (from "pitch ...

  3. Traditional Asian medicine - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Asian medicine is a collective term for several types of traditional medicine practiced in Asia. [1] These include the medical traditions of: East Asia China. Tibet; Japan (Kampo) Korea; Mongolia; Southeast Asia Cambodia; Indonesia (Jamu) Thailand; Vietnam; South Asia Ayurveda; Tamil Nadu (Siddha) West Asia Middle East (Unani) Iran

  4. Medical cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Mummia quickly became popular throughout Europe within the 16th century and was thought to cure all kinds of ailments. To prepare it, the black remnants in the skull and abdominal cavities were scraped out of mummies and placed in a large vase. Apothecaries mixed this mummia with herbs and wine, then prescribed it as medicine for their patients ...

  5. Category:Traditional medicine - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 19 September 2021, at 07:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Ahmed al-Sharaa - Wikipedia

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    Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa [b] (born 29 October 1982), [5] also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, [c] is a Syrian revolutionary, military commander and politician who has been widely regarded as the de facto leader of Syria since December 2024. [8]

  7. Bhaisajyaguru - Wikipedia

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    The practice of Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menla in Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ།, Wylie: sangs rgyas sman bla, THL: sang-gyé men-la) is not only a very powerful method for healing and increasing healing powers both for oneself and others, but also for overcoming the inner sickness of attachment, hatred, and ignorance ...

  8. Traditional Vietnamese medicine - Wikipedia

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    It is influenced by traditional Chinese medicine. The other traditional medicine that is also practiced in Vietnam is traditional Chinese medicine (Trung Y), also known as Northern Herbology (Thuốc Bắc). [1] [2] Thuốc Nam is one of two kinds of folk remedies known to villagers, the other being the traditional exercise dưỡng sinh. [3] [4]

  9. Vietnamese encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.