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This book combines historical biography with a focus on the role of the practitioner in the folk health-care system, and ethnobotany, including a description of the active ingredients of the herbs used in African American herbal medicine.

Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction Historical Overview of African American Folk Medicine Becoming an Herbalist Diagnostic System Classification of Materia Medica and Illustrations Herbal Repertoire Appendix References Index

Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit

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    A Hardback by Arvilla Payne-Jackson, John Lee

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      Publisher: ABC-CLIO
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/30/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780313288685, 978-0313288685
      ISBN10: 0313288682

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book combines historical biography with a focus on the role of the practitioner in the folk health-care system, and ethnobotany, including a description of the active ingredients of the herbs used in African American herbal medicine.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword Introduction Historical Overview of African American Folk Medicine Becoming an Herbalist Diagnostic System Classification of Materia Medica and Illustrations Herbal Repertoire Appendix References Index

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