Ancient Texts on Old World Narcotic Plants Narcotic Plants of the Old World Used in Rituals and Everyday Life: An Anthology of Texts from Ancient Times to the Present Hedwig Schleiffer

BioScience ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 613-613
Author(s):  
Wesley Wong
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Old World ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Narcotic Plants ◽  
Ancient Texts

Narcotic Plants of the Old World: Used in Rituals and Everyday Life.

Brittonia ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 511
Author(s):  
Frank J. Lipp ◽  
Hedwig Schleiffer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Old World ◽  
Narcotic Plants

Essential oils and safety of their use

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Beata Girek ◽  
Małgorzata Deska ◽  
Tomasz Girek
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Essential Oils ◽  
Toxic Effect ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
A Priority

Currently, many herbal substances are used in everyday life products and in many industry such as food, cosmetics and others. Essential oils are mixtures of volatile organic compounds separated from plants or parts of them. They are characterized by an intense fragrance, but they have a diverse composition. Depending on the source, there are one or several dominant components. History acquisition of essential oils dates back to ancient times. Due to the unique fragrance qualities, the oils accompany humanity all the time. More perfect methods of analysis of the composition of essential oils used in cosmetics, food (spices) and aromatherapy, prompts us to consider the safety of their use. In addition to health-promoting substances, oils can also contain many organic compounds with an allergic or even toxic effect. Getting to know the essential oils composition and thorough acquaintance of consumers with possible risks of using essential oils is currently a priority for the producers of essential oils.

The Religious Front

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-56
Author(s):  
Victoria Smolkin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Old World ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Administrative Regulation

This chapter examines militant atheism under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, focusing on how the Bolsheviks approached religion from the revolution in 1917 until Stalin's death in 1953. Using legal and administrative regulation, extralegal repression and terror, and militant atheist propaganda, the Bolsheviks sought to build a new Communist world, remake society, and transform human nature. The chapter first provides a background on Russia's “old world” in order to understand the political, social, and cultural landscape that the Bolsheviks inherited when they seized power in October 1917. It then considers the Marxist–Leninist framework within which the Bolsheviks understood religion, the Bolsheviks' atheist propaganda and scientific enlightenment, and byt (culture of everyday life) as the final frontier in the Bolshevik Party's war against religion. It also describes the Bolshevik Party's adoption of the Stalinist religious policy, Stalin's wartime rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church, and his decision to abandon atheism.

The originality of the “estate topos” in the A.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Peter the First”

2020 ◽  
pp. 262-272
Author(s):  
Anna S. Akimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Research History ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Peasant Household ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Poor Peasant ◽  
The City

Moscow is the city which united the characters of A.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Peter the First”. Kitay-Gorod is the space where the action of the first book is mainly set. In the novel Tolstoy showed in great detail the everyday life of the city and its inhabi- tants. According to the I.E. Zabelin’s research (“History of the city of Moscow”) in late 17 — early 18 th centuries Moscow was like a big village that is why Tolstoy relied on his childhood memories about the life in the small village Sosnovka (Samara Region) describing the streets of Moscow. The novel begins with the description of a poor peasant household of Brovkin near Moscow, then Volkov’s noble estate is depicted and Menshikov’s house. The space of the city is expanding with each new “address”. Moscow estates, and in particular, connected with the figure of “guardian, lover of the Princess-ruler” V.V. Golitsyn, in Tolstoy’s novel are inextricably linked with the character’s living and with the life of the country. The description of the palace built by Golitsyn at the peak of his career is based on the Sergei Solovyov’s “History of Russia in ancient times”. Golitsyn left it and went to his estate outside Moscow Medvedkovo and from there in exile.

Colgate-Palmolive's Attempt of Patenting Toothpaste Formula

2017 ◽  
pp. 148-169
Author(s):  
Neetika Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Herb Extract ◽  
Ancient Texts

By creating a robust intellectual property structure, a high-quality job future can be secured and sustained. Therefore, promotion to innovation/invention requires adequate protection. The multinational giant Colgate- Palmolive can be seen caught up into legal dispute where accusation is over the company for having purloined an archaic formula to have its roots to ancient times, and also being used by Indians for generations. India foiled an attempt by consumer goods giant Colgate-Palmolive to patent a mouthwash formula containing herb extract by citing ancient texts that show it was traditionally used in ancient medicinal practices. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR-TKDL) had submitted proof in the form of references from ancient books, which said the herb and its extracts in Indian systems of medicine. The proactivness of Indian community to safeguard its traditional knowledge obstructed the profit-making strategy of the company.

A Reserch regarding Targoviste’s Inhabitant’s Opinion on what are the Massage’s Benefits on Health and Wellness

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Georgiana-Daniela Badicu
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Valuable Component ◽  
Initial Application ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Therapeutic Properties ◽  
Immediate Experience

Abstract Some people consider the massage a luxury and resort to it only in case of need. But given the pressures of fashionable society, and particularly by the increases in diseases caused by stress, such therapies should become an integral part of everyday life and should be recognized as a valuable component of preventive medicine. Since ancient times, people have searched for aids to cure or alienate their suffering in pain, using primary therapeutic properties of water, sunlight and movement. Most likely is that the initial application of massage was instinctively result in immediate experience of its healing properties. Starting from the idea that massage can be both necessity and whim, we decided to identify how massage was and find an answer to the question: “Massage - fad or necessity?”

Lavana Varga in Ayurveda

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilpa Nimbal ◽  
Umapati C. Baragi ◽  
Jyothi Alias Jyotsna
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Times ◽  
Ancient Texts

Lavana has been used as medicine as well as food since ancient times. A number of salts are described in various ancient texts and out of which, some are not available in present day, but Panchalavana are mainly used in medicinal purposes. The names of five varieties of Lavana are included in Panchalavana group,varies from text to text. There are many terms commonly used in Ayurveda as like Lavantraya, Lavana Chaturya, Lavana Panchaka, Lavanashadushna etc. Lavana Panchaka is explained first among them. The group of five salts viz. Saindhava Lavana, Samudra Lavana, Vida Lavana, Sauvarchala Lavana, Romaka Lavana , among all Saindhava Lavana is the best one.

Rags and Riches: The Costume of Athenian Men in the Fifth Century

1987 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Geddes
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Men 1 ◽  
Ancient Times

At the beginning of the fifth century there was a change in the style of clothing worn by Athenian men.1 When Thucydides speaks of it,2 he first describes how the Greeks of ancient times used to carry weapons in everyday life, just as the barbarians of his own day still did. The Athenians were the first to lay weapons aside and to take up a relaxed and more luxurious way of life.

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