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August 6, 2025
Dimple Kumari, Suresh Kumar.S, Harwinder Kaur
Ethnomycology is the scientific study of the relationship between humans and fungi from cultural, anthropological, and historical perspectives. It focuses on the traditional knowledge, uses, beliefs, and rituals associated with fungi in various societies and indigenous cultures around the world. The variety, edibility, indigenous knowledge, and distribution of wild edible mushrooms in the...
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September 5, 2023
Chinnadurai Immanuel Selvaraj, Vrushali Manoj Hadkar, Gadwal Shaik Nishat Anjum
Salvia divinorum , or the ‘diviner’s sage’, is a member of the Lamiaceae family. it is a perennial shrub-like herb and grows to a height of 0.5–1.5 metres. S. divinorum is native to the Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca, Mexico where the Mazatec people consume the plant&s;s fresh leaves or leaf preparations for medicinal, therapeutic, and divinatory rites. The plant is a rich source of diterpenes and...
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April 21, 2017
Arvind K. Birdie, Kuldeep Kumar
276 The present workplace and world is blooming complicated and stressful day by day. The present chapter reviews the role of mindfulness in workplace. Mindfulness is gaining a growing popularity as a practice in daily life, apart from Buddhist insight meditation and its application in psychology. Not that long ago, meditation was seen widely as the preserve of hippies and saffron-clad monks,...
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April 15, 2011
Harold H. Trimm
Introduction Salvinorin A (1a), isolated from the hallucinogenic sage Salvia divinorum,[1] is a potent and selective κ opioid receptor (KOR) agonist.[2] Because it is the rst known non-nitrogenous compound to have biologically signicant actions at mammalian opioid receptors, 1a enables new approaches to studies of endogenous opioid receptor systems. KOR ligands, in particular, have attracted...