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Unani or Yunani medicine ( Urdu: طب یونانی tibb yūnānī[ 1]) is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific. [ 2][ 3] The Indian Medical Association describes Unani practitioners who claim to practice medicine as quacks. [ 4]
Shilajit. Shilajit or Mumijo, Mohave Lava Tube, 2018. Shilajit ( Sanskrit: शिलाजीत; lit. 'conqueror of mountain', 'conqueror of the rocks'), salajeet ( Urdu: سلاجیت ), mumijo or mumlayi or mumie[ 1] is an organic-mineral product of predominantly biological origin, formed in the mountains (in mountain crevices and caves).
Cultural figureheads such as Bob Marley popularized Rastafari and ganja through reggae music. In 1976, Peter Tosh defended the use of ganja in the song "Legalize It". [14] The hip hop group Cypress Hill revived the term in the United States in 2004 in a song titled "Ganja Bus", followed by other artists, including rapper Eminem, in the 2009 song "Must Be the Ganja".
Hashish (, ( IPA: [ħæʃiːʃ] )), commonly shortened to hash, is an oleoresin made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes. [ 2][ 3] It is consumed as a psychoactive drug by smoking or oral ingestion. Hashish has a long history of usage in ...
Psychiatry, clinical psychology, toxicology, addiction medicine. Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.
Mitragyna speciosa (commonly known as kratom, a herbal leaf from a tree of the Rubiaceae family [ 3][ 4]) is a tropical evergreen tree in the coffee family native to Southeast Asia. It is indigenous to Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, [ 5] where it has been used in herbal medicine since at least the 19th ...
Asafoetida ( / æsəˈfɛtɪdə /; also spelled asafetida) [ 1] is the dried latex ( gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, perennial herbs of the carrot family. It is produced in Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, northern India, and Northwest China ( Xinjiang ). Different regions have different ...
Charas is a cannabis concentrate made from the resin of a live cannabis plant ( Cannabis sativa either Indica subspecies or Sativa subspecies) and is handmade in the Indian subcontinent and Jamaica. [ 1][ 2] The plant grows wild throughout Northern India [ 3] along the stretch of the Himalayas (its putative origin) and is an important cash crop ...