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Lee, Michele E.
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Blacks -- United States -- Medicine.
Traditional medicine.
Medicinal plants -- United States.
Medicinal plants.
Alternative medicine.
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Lee, Michele E.
Blacks -- United States -- Medicine.
Traditional medicine.
Medicinal plants -- United States.
Medicinal plants.
Alternative medicine.
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Working
the
roots
:
over
400
years
of
traditonal
African
American
healing
/ by Michele E. Lee ; J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, editor.
by
Lee, Michele E.
Wadastick Publishers, 2014.
Call #:
613.0899 L479w
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- Medicine.
Traditional medicine.
Medicinal plants -- United States.
Medicinal plants.
Alternative medicine.
ISBN:
9780692857878 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
African
American
healing
Description:
xv, 374 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page 374).
Summary:
"
African
American
traditional medicine is an
American
classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the
healing
knowledge brought with the
African
captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native
American
, European and other
healing
traditions to become a full-fledged body of medicinal practices that has lasted in various forms down to the present day. [This book] is the result of first-hand interviews, conversations, and apprenticeships conducted and experienced by author Michele E. Lee
over
several
years
of living and studying in the rural South and in the West Coast regions of the United States. She combines a novelist's keen ear for storytelling and dialogue and a healer's understanding of folk medicine arts into a book that makes for both pleasant, interesting reading, and serves as a permanent household
healing
guide. Divided between sections on interviews of healers and their stories and a comprehensive collection of traditional
African
American
medicines, remedies, and the many common ailments they were called upon to cure, [this book] is a valuable addition to
African
American
history and
American
and
African
folk
healing
practices."--From publisher.
Other authors:
Allen-Taylor, J. Douglas editor.
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