From Medicine
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Medicine is the science concerned with restoring and maintaining the health. It is the science of preventing and curing diseases.
Medicine is both an area of knowledge, and the application of that knowledge.
One of the more recent trends of health care today is the complementary use of both traditional and alternative health-care.
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Traditional medicine, also known as allopathic or Western medicine, is more drug and surgery oriented.
Some of the forms of alternative health care are massage, acupuncture, acupressure, chiropractic care, applied kinesiology, touch for health, homeopathy, diet, and herbal medicine. This type of medicine is a medicine of health and focuses on maintaining that health before it reaches the point of dysfunction.
Both, allopathic and alternative treatments are valid options and are often complementary, they are succsefuly used in may areas. The blend of these two disciplines should make health-care much more effective in the coming years.
Weight loss strategies are a bridge between traditional and alternative medicine and have been used successfully by people trying to lose weight.
Both prescription medications and supplements can facilitate weight loss, if used together with a healthy diet and exercise. |
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To Regions
The still vivid Romanian traditional folk art, founded on a very powerful unity, makes that even nowadays in all Romanian historical provinces - Oltenia, Muntenia, Dobrogea, Moldova, Bucovina, Transylvania, Banat, Maramures - to persist the specialization in various artistic handicrafts.
We mention just some of them: pottery, weaving and embroidering, carving in wood or stone, painting on wood, glass or stone, making of sheepskin or leather goods, artistic processing of metals - from iron and copper to silver and gold - sculpturing of bone or horn, weaving of vegetal fibers.
The folk pottery summarize a series of traditional elements marked by the life conditions and by the evolution of the aesthetic taste. In Moldavia, a great variety of forms can be encountered where can be observe types characteristic to the old Greek-Roman ceramics. Valued and highly appreciated are the vases from black ceramics made at Marginea in Suceava County and Deleni (Iasi). In Maramures region can be admired objects of black ceramics as well as objects of brush painted ceramics. Lapusul Romanesc is a well-known area for its ceramics, considered to be a synthesis of the Romanian ceramics forms' evolution. Another pottery center in Maramures is at Sacel where it is made red un polished ceramics. Still in Transylvania, centers known for the art of the ceramics are at Vama (Satu Mare), Leheceni and Corund (enameled ceramics, richly decorated) while in Wallachia, at Musatesti (13 km distance of Curtea de Arges), Valsanesti, Stroesti, Poienita, Obaga (in Oltenia). But the most representative pottery center from Romania is however at Horezu (Valcea County), a center with permanent ethnographical exhibitions and traditional fairs as "Cocosul de Hurez" fair, annually organized (3-5 June) that hosts craftsmen from different centers of traditional ceramics from all over the country.
The finest achievements in their textile arts are the embroideries which vary from region to region. Those of Kalotaszeg in Transylvania are charming products of Oriental design, sewn chiefly in a single color - red, blue, or black. The peasant costumes of the Székelys in Transylvania are especially distinctive, preserving more ancestral motifs than those in other regions, probably caused by their ethnographic isolation. In Transylvania the greater part of the territory is hilly and, as a result, most of the people breed cattle instead of working in the field. Accordingly, the Székelys have been using hides to make clothes for many centuries. Torockó is another locality in Transylvania known for its unique folk-wear, whose people use an unlikely, but pleasing, blend of materials in fashioning their wardrobe. Silk, lace and other expensive materials combined with primitive ancient robes made of leather and linen are blended into a harmonious ensemble.
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