African American Home Remedies
Author: Eddie L. Boyd
Publisher: University of Louisiana
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935754329
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Author: Eddie L. Boyd
Publisher: University of Louisiana
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935754329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephanie Mitchem
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0814757324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.
Author: Rev Dr Geraldine L Johnson-Carter
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781078020794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is written for those who are interested in rediscovering and learning about some of the "Old Home Remedies" used by our grandparents and others who have gone before us: In the days of old, many had no other options when illness occurred, but to use herbs and natural remedies for themselves and those who came to them for the "cure". Herbs and other remedies were used also, to prevent illness and disease. The descriptive information is written mostly from my memory of my Grandmother, but even more so, from the memory of my Great-Grandmother, both of whom I have come to realize, played a very important role in who I am, and even more so, in whom I am becoming today.
Author: Marcellus A. Walker
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2008-12-14
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0446554278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNatural approaches to maintaining or restoring overall well being. Chapters are devoted to the health concerns of particular importance to African-Americans such as heart disease & diabetes.
Author: Herbert C. Covey
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780739116449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.
Author: Lucretia VanDyke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1646043529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first-of-its-kind herbal guide takes you through the origins of herbal practices rooted in African American tradition--from Ancient Egypt and the African tropics to the Caribbean and the United States. Inside you'll find the stories of herbal healers like Emma Dupree and Henrietta Jeffries, who made modern American herbalism what it is today. You'll also find a comprehensive herbal guide to the most commonly used herbs--such as aloe, lavender, sage, sassafras, and more--alongside gorgeous botanical illustrations. African American Herbalism is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to explore the medicinal and healing properties of herbs.
Author: Harriet A. Washington
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-01-08
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 076791547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book. "[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book." —New York Times From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions. The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers—and indeed the whole medical establishment—with such deep distrust.
Author: Sharla M. Fett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780807853788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.
Author: Michele Elizabeth Lee
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780692857878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing" is an engaging study of the traditional healing arts that have sustained African Americans across the Atlantic ocean for four centuries down through today. Complete with photographs and illustrations, a medicines, remedies, and hoodoo section, interviews and stories.
Author: Kyriakos S. Markides
Publisher: Center for Mexican American Studies
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
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