Assertion: desert truffle | /r/ObjectUse | used as folk medicine
Facets:
value: as aphrodisiac agents
type: MANNER
value: in the arabian countries
type: LOCATION
value: for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases
type: PURPOSE
value: traditionally
type: OTHER
value: without any known complications
type: OTHER
value: over two millennia
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Traditionally, desert truffles have been used as folk medicine in the Arabian countries over two millennia without any known complications .
text: Omer et al.  reported that desert truffles (Tirmania and Terfezia spp.) have been utilized in folk medicine for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases and as aphrodisiac agents.