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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Anthony Cavender
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-25 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropo
Southern Folk Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Phyllis D. Light
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-16 - Publisher: North Atlantic Books

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For the first time ever, an active practitioner describes the history, folklore, and remedies of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine in this groundbreaking g
Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Patricia Kyritsi Howell
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: Boston Academic Pub

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This concise guide to medicinal plants of the Southern Appalachians includes botanical descriptions of 45 native plants, their historical and current uses in he
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Kay K. Moss
Categories: Folklore
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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The author "inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, pr
Black Folk Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 110
Authors: Wilbur H. Watson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Transaction Publishers

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Folk medicine is an important informal and traditional system of social health care support that is still wisely used in many nations including rural regions of