Mia Touw’s research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

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Publications (2)

Roses in the Middle Ages
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January 1982

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Economic Botany

Mia Touw

Though we now tend to consider roses only as subjects for horticulture and perfumery, there were times when their significance extended far beyond that. Their religious symbolism among the Christian Europeans merits a section to itself; and the section on their practical significance in medicine occupies almost half of the present article. Yet it is not because roses were less important in perfumery and horticulture that the latter two are eclipsed in this way, but only because they were so much more important in areas where they are now forgotten.

Citations (2)

... Paracelsus believed that the healing properties of plants could be deduced from their external characteristics, such as their shape, color, texture, or scent. He argued that nature was a reflection of divine wisdom, and therefore, plants with certain visual resemblances to specific body parts could be used to heal those parts [26]. In year 1977, Tippo and Stern stated that "In many cases, a firm belief in the goodness of God who put everything on earth for his people gave rise to the DOS, which held that the key to man's use of plants was hidden in the form of the plant itself; one had only to look closely" [27]. ...

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Nature's Signature in Ayurveda with an Ethnopharmacological Approach: A Narrative Review
Roses in the Middle Ages
  • Citing Article

  • January 1982

Economic Botany

Mia Touw

... Los antiguos chinos usaban el cannabis de diversas formas para tratar dolencias, como dolor en las articulaciones, espasmos musculares, gota y malaria (Russo, 2007). Alrededor del año 1000 a. C., el cannabis se usaba como agente analgésico (disminuye el dolor), hipnótico (inductor del sueño), tranquilizante y antiinflamatorio (disminuye la inflamación) en la India (Touw, 1981). ...

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Conociendo al Cannabidiol
The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet
  • Citing Article

  • January 1981

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Mia Touw