Folk medicine in southern Appalachia /

Folk medicine in southern Appalachia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavender, Anthony P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Traditional medicine > Appalachian Region, Southern > History.
Traditional medicine > Appalachian Region, Southern > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicinal plants > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Materia medica > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Medicine, Traditional > history > Appalachian Region.
Table of Contents:
  • Health and disease in southern Appalachia
  • The folk medical belief system
  • Folk materia medica
  • Folk treatments
  • Folk healers
  • Contemporary perspectives on southern Appalachian folk medicine.