For example, quinine comes from the cinchona tree has been used to treat malaria, digitalis from the foxglove plant treats chronic heart trouble, and morphine from the poppy plant gives pain relief.

Medicine treats injury and pathology to support and speed healing ; and treats distressing symptoms such as pain to relieve suffering during treatment and healing.

Physical therapy effectively treats 70 % of back pain cases due to scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, and bad posture.

Proponents of acupuncture believe that it promotes general health, relieves pain, treats infertility, and treats and prevents disease.

A pain specialist who treats sickle-cell disease patients at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center reported that for many years doctors forced African American sickle-cell sufferers to endure pain because they assumed that blacks would become addicted to medication ; Time magazine labeled this " ailing while black.

* Princely state treats the nobility, mainly ruling houses, in the colonial context of the British Empire

See appanage ( mainly for the French kingdom ) and the list in the geographical section below, which also treats special ducal titles in orders or national significance.

Of the four books of L ' Art poétique, the first and last consist of general precepts, inculcating mainly the great rule of bon sens ; the second treats of the pastoral, the elegy, the ode, the epigram and satire ; and the third of tragic and epic poetry.

*§ 14 ( 3 ) of the Luftsicherheitsgesetz, which would have allowed the Bundeswehr to shoot down airliners if they are used as weapons by terrorists, was declared unconstitutional mainly on the grounds of human dignity: killing a small number of innocent people to save a large number cannot be legalized since it treats dignity as if it were a measurable and limited quantity.

Rigsby treats him with mistrust, mainly because of Alan's permissive, left wing views.

It mainly treats binding in the chest, boosts the heart qi, supplements the center, sharpens the wits, and people not to forget improves the memory.

Today the hospital is an independent organisation, for most medical and surgical specialities and mainly treats members of The Benenden Healthcare Society as well as some NHS and private patients.

As a meal in Pakistan, iftar is usually heavy, consisting mainly of sweet and savoury treats such as jalebi, samosas, pakora with ketchup or chatni and namak para, besides the staple dates and water.

In the wild they eat a diet of mainly insects, but pet owners generally prefer a diet composed primarily of high protein low fat high quality cat food, with regular treats such as mealworms, fruits, vegetables, and cooked unseasoned meats.

Normally, the software in a computer treats the computer ’ s display screen as a rectangular array of square, indivisible pixels, each of which has an intensity and color that are determined by the blending of three primary colors: red, green, and blue.

( For example, a person living by this rule treats all people with consideration, not just members of his or her in-group ).

Once inside, the DNA becomes expressed by the cell machinery, resulting in the production of therapeutic protein, which in turn treats the patient's disease.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

This explanation is supported by a children's tradition, observed up to the 1960s in some parts of Scotland at least, of visiting houses in their locality on New Year's Eve and requesting and receiving small treats such as sweets or fruit.

Luce, in Sense without Matter ( 1954 ), attempts to bring Berkeley up to date by modernising his vocabulary and putting the issues he faced in modern terms, and treats the Biblical account of matter and the psychology of perception and nature.

Bereshit ( Genesis ) treats the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by God.

When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back.

In the television comedy series Blackadder, Richard III is portrayed by Peter Cook in an alternative version of history as a doting, kindly man who treats his nephews with affection.

Another difference between the sources is that the republican source treats the shouters as somewhat independent from Samuel () rather than having been led by him ().

For this reason, it is characteristic of groups within which a given narrative circulates to react very negatively to claims or demonstrations of non-factuality ; an example would be the expressions of outrage by police officers who are told that adulteration of Halloween treats by strangers ( the subject of periodic moral panics ) is extremely rare, if it has occurred at all.

However, a similar objection was noted by Thomas Nagel in 1970 who claimed that consequentialism ‘ treats the desires, needs, satisfactions, and dissatisfactions of distinct persons as if they were the desires, etc., of a mass person .’ and even earlier by David Gauthier who wrote that utilitarianism supposes ‘ that mankind is a super-person, whose greatest satisfaction is the objective of moral action.

Being so thoroughly informed by social science perspectives on identity and society, Le Guin treats race and gender quite deliberately.

* November 17 – ( Julian calendar ) John Balliol is selected by King Edward I of England as King of Scotland from among 13 candidates ; Edward then treats John as a puppet ruler and Scotland as a vassal state, eventually provoking the Wars of Scottish Independence, commencing in 1296.

* Forced population transfers in early Ottoman imperial strategy, a comparative thesis that treats the subject in some detail, and includes a general evaluation of the use of population transfers by states in the pre-modern period

In summary, social role theory “ treats these differing distributions of women and men into roles as the primary origin of sex-differentiated social behavior, their impact on behavior is mediated by psychological and social processes ” ( Eagly, 1997 ), including “ developmental and socialization processes, as well as by processes involved in social interaction ( e. g., expectancy confirmation ) and self-regulation ” ( Eagly et al., 2004 ).

The man calling himself " Diktor " treats him to a sumptuous breakfast, waited on by beautiful women.

* The rebel Seleucid general and ruler of Media, Timarchus, who has distinguished himself by defending Media against the emergent Parthians, treats Demetrius I's violent accession to the Seleucid throne as the excuse to declare himself an independent king and extend his realm from Media into Babylonia.

Although he cannot control his delinquent tendencies, he treats her with respect and even tries to change for her, although both of them realize that he is not being true to himself by doing so.

The entry of the sperm into the scrotum causes sperm granulomas to be formed by the body to contain and absorb the sperm which the body treats as a foreign substance.

Though it mostly treats homosexuality in a non-sensationalised manner, there is one rather catty aspect to the film — Price's character ( a prominent gay theater star ) would have been fairly easy for contemporary audiences to identify with Noël Coward.

Much like yoghurts in some parts of the world, these treats mostly come with fruit flavouring ( Früchtequark, fruit quark ), and are often also simply referred to as quark.

The development introduces new themes mostly based on the exposition's material ( some by augmentation and other variation ) and treats them, again, canonically before gradually introducing a songful episode.

* On Adaptive Reuse A blog, mostly architectural, but it also treats adaptive reuse as an approach to a wide range issues.

International law treats the Holy See, essentially the central government of the Roman Catholic Church, as the juridical equal of a state.

English Heritage is often criticised by property developers and citizens for being ' anti-progressive ' in the way it treats high rise development in central London.

Religious philosophy and the supernatural are also central to the novel, elements which are also present in Leibowitz but which Hoban treats in a more allusive, mystical sense, drawing on elements of many religious traditions.

* Effluent sewer, also called a solids-free sewer ( SFS ), a sewer system that treats waste in septic tanks before pumping the effluent to a central plant

Significant advances in the fields of liver medicine ( hepatology ) and transplantation ; renal disease and dialysis ; haematology and haemophilia have been made at the Royal Free and the trust now treats all patients needing dialysis in north and central London.

* Effluent sewer, also called a solids-free sewer system ( SFSS ), a sewer system that treats waste in septic tanks before pumping the effluent to a central plant

Perceval is the earliest recorded account of what was to become the Quest for the Holy Grail but describes only " a " golden grail ( a serving dish ) in the central scene and does not call it " holy " but treats a lance, appearing at the same time, as equally significant.