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
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
"In addition, their bodies are used medicinally and the lizards are also eaten," they write in their research paper.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 27, 2023
The leaves can be eaten in salads, dried for tea or used medicinally, topically, either directly or after being infused in oil.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
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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