medicinally
Americanadverb
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Studies on reishi mushrooms are currently too small and short-term to be statistically significant, despite them being used medicinally in Asian cultures for thousands of years.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Building on work from similar species of plants used in African ethnomedicine, the research team investigated whether the medicinally active compounds in C. oligandrus could be latency-reversing agents, or LRAs, substances that reactivate latent HIV.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
Reishi, the “mushroom of immortality,” has been used medicinally in Asia for more than 2,000 years to promote health and longevity.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 31, 2024
Traditionally used medicinally for physical and spiritual ailments, pox also has symbolic importance to the Tzotzil Mayans.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2022
Her host told her to go, and advised her to gather on the way a certain fern, parasitic on trees, that is used medicinally in the disease of which the woman was sick.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
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