| does the taste matter? taste and medicinal perceptions associated with five selected herbal drugs among three ethnic groups in west yorkshire, northern england. | in recent years, diverse scholars have addressed the issue of the chemosensory perceptions associated with traditional medicines, nevertheless there is still a distinct lack of studies grounded in the social sciences and conducted from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective. in this urban ethnobotanical field study, 254 informants belonging to the gujarati, kashmiri and english ethnic groups and living in western yorkshire in northern england were interviewed about the relationship between ta ... | 2007 | 17475019 |
| the use of health foods, spices and other botanicals in the sikh community in london. | attitudes and practice concerning complementary and alternative medicine (cam) are currently an area of considerable interest. however, little is known about the overall importance of such practices, for example, in immigrant communities such as the sikh (punjabi) british. the use of cam in immigrants belonging to the sikh religion in london was studied. the primary objective was to analyse the extent to which traditional medicine is used and understood by this population. traditional sikh medic ... | 2005 | 16161027 |