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Southern folk medicine : healing traditions from the Appalachian fields and forests

Light, Phyllis D. (author.). Gladstar, Rosemary (writer of foreword.).

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  • ISBN: 1623171563
  • ISBN: 9781623171568
  • Physical Description: xx, 278 pages ; 23 cm
    print
  • Publisher: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: What is folk medicine? -- Common tenets of folk medicine -- The calling -- Many peoples, many traditions -- Church, superstitions, and signs -- Tenets of southern folk medicine -- Hot/cold and wet/dry -- The constitutions -- Fire: bitter blood -- Water: salty blood -- Air or wind: sour blood -- Earth: sweet blood -- What's your constitutional makeup?
Subject: Folklore Appalachian Region, Southern
Human geography Appalachian Region, Southern
Healing Appalachian Region, Southern
Alternative medicine Appalachian Region, Southern
Holistic medicine Appalachian Region, Southern
Traditional medicine Appalachian Region, Southern

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  • 9 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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