#babes

• Angelica — A regional or archaic folk variant for 'angelică' (garden angelica) or 'angelină', denoting a robust herbaceous plant in the umbellifer family, historically prized in Romanian villages for its outstanding medicinal and aromatic properties. Its roots and fleshy stems are utilized in traditional phytotherapy as a digestive tonic, stomachic, and antispasmodic, popularly recognized under the metaphorical name of angel herb.
• Babes — A Romanian proper name, globally renowned due to Victor Babeș (1854–1926), a famous physician, bacteriologist, and morphopathologist, member of the Romanian Academy and co-author of the world's first treatise on bacteriology; eponym for the parasite genus 'Babesia', the disease 'babesiosis', and the 'Babeș-Negri' corpuscles, his name being honored by the University in Cluj-Napoca (Babeș-Bolyai).
• Old-fashioned — Pertaining to old women, specific to them, or originating from them; characteristic of traditional rural mentalities. In current usage, the term usually qualifies empirical remedies, beliefs, or household customs transmitted orally in rural environments, which do not rely on rigorous scientific or medical arguments but form an integral part of folklore.
• Babesia — Babesia; a genus of parasitic protozoans transmitted by ticks that infect and destroy red blood cells in mammals, including humans, causing a severe condition known as babesiosis characterized by hemolytic anemia and high fever.
• To practice folk healing — To practice traditional folk healing, chanting, or using old wives' remedies and spells, performed by elderly women (babe) in archaic rural communities. In an extended sense, it means to coddle excessively, to overcare, or to prolong a traditional treatment without scientific backing.