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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.
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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.
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Allen-Taylor, J. Douglas editor.
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