01623nam a22002417a 4500 58546 58546 20211206114226.0 211101b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780313288685 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17 Prakash Apartment Building,Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi ;116962 ;19/10/2021 615.3210 JAC Arvilla Payne-Jackson Folk wisdom and mother wit : John Lee, an African American herbal healer /Arvilla Payne-Jackson Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1993. xiv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 6733 Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 161. Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1 Introduction (starting p. 1) -- Ch. 1 Historical Overview of African American Folk Medicine (starting p. 7) -- Ch. 2 Becoming an Herbalist (starting p. 17) -- Ch. 3 Diagnostic System (starting p. 21) -- Ch. 4 Classification of the Materia Medica and Illustrations (starting p. 27) -- Pt. 2 Herbal Repertoire (starting p. 35) -- Appendix: Biologicals (starting p. 159) -- References (starting p. 161) -- Index (starting p. 169) 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 Traditional medicine Herbs--Therapeutic use Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- North Carolina. John Lee BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2021-11-01 International Book Distributors 6733.00 0 615.3210 JAC 28108 2021-11-01 00:00:00 2021-11-01 BOOK