panacea

The defining goals of alchemy are often given as the transmutation of common metals into gold ( known as chrysopoeia ), the creation of a panacea, and the discovery of a universal solvent.

Bellamy's vision of a country relieved of its social ills through abandonment of the principle of competition and establishment of state ownership of industry proved an appealing panacea to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age America.

Thompson claimed that it contained an extract from a rare, unnamed South American plant, which had supposedly been discovered by a friend of his, Lieutenant Moxie, who had used it as a panacea.

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Neem is considered a weed in many areas, including some parts of the Middle East, and most of Sub-Saharan Africa including West Africa where in Senegal it has been used as a malarial drug and Tanzania and other Indian Ocean states where in Kiswahili it is known as ' the panacea ', literally ' the tree that cures forty ', where ayurvedic uses are practiced.

In international development, Ben Fine and John Harriss have been heavily critical of the inappropriate adoption of social capital as a supposed panacea ( promoting civil society organisations and NGOs, for example, as agents of development ) for the inequalities generated by neo liberal economic development.

Leary promulgated the idea of such substances as a panacea, while Huxley suggested that only the cultural and intellectual elite should partake of entheogens systematically.

* In Congo, ginger is crushed and mixed with mango tree sap to make tangawisi juice, which is considered a panacea.

These stereotypes were voiced with much shrillness by writers like Isocrates in the 4th century BC who called for a war of conquest against Persia as a panacea for Greek problems.

Others see it as a panacea that finally realizes the human relations movement's desire to integrate what that movement perceives as best for workers and as best for managers.

While some of Haushofer's ideas stem from earlier American and British geostrategy, German geopolitik adopted an essentialist outlook toward the national interest, oversimplifying issues and representing itself as a panacea.

Professor Dean Karlan from Yale University says that whilst microcredit generates benefits it isn't the panacea that it has been purported to be.

Initially the new conditionality led to an even greater emphasis on “ civil society ” as a panacea, replacing the state's service provision and social care, Hulme and Edwards suggested that it was now seen as “ the magic bullet .”

By the end of the 1990s civil society was seen less as a panacea amid the growth of the anti-globalization movement and the transition of many countries to democracy ; instead, civil society was increasingly called on to justify its legitimacy and democratic credentials.

“ Citizenship in and through the social sector is not a panacea for the ills of post-capitalist society and post-capitalist polity, but it may be a prerequisite for tackling these ills ,” Drucker wrote.

One group of patent medicines — liniments that allegedly contained snake oil, supposedly a panacea — made snake oil salesman a lasting synonym for a charlatan.

Nay, he would sometimes retire hither to take his beer, and it was not without difficulty that he was prevented from forcing Jones to take his beer too: for no quack ever held his nostrum to be a more general panacea than he did this ; which, he said, had more virtue in it than was in all the physic in an apothecary's shop.

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In many religions of North and South America that pre-date European colonization, mugwort is regarded as a sacred plant of divination and spiritual healing, as well as a panacea.

The botanical / genus name Panax means " all-heal " in Greek, sharing the same origin as " panacea ", and was applied to this genus because Linnaeus was aware of its wide use in Chinese medicine as a muscle relaxant.

Monetarist explanations had been rejected in Samuelson's work Economics, writing " Today few economists regard Federal Reserve monetary policy as a panacea for controlling the business cycle.

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Algae based biofuels have been hyped in the media as a potential panacea to our Crude Oil based Transportation problems.

During a private seminar for the Fabian Society in August 2005, Tony McNulty, the minister in charge of the scheme, stated ' perhaps in the past the government, in its enthusiasm, oversold the advantages of identity cards ,' and that they ' did suggest, or at least implied, that they might well be a panacea for identity fraud, for benefit fraud, terrorism, entitlement and access to public services '.