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Infusions of Healing: A Treasury of Mexican-American Herbal Remedies Paperback - 1999
by Joie Davidow
This treasury of Mexican-American herbal medicine presents hundreds of safe, effective herbal treatments for everyday ailments--teas, liniments, compresses, salves, and soothing baths for headaches, colds, fevers, digestive problems, menstrual cramps, and aches and pains. In addition, more than 200 herbs are cataloged and cross-referenced. 10 line drawings.
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Traditional Mexican-American medicine is un rico menudo, a rich stew, with a long list of ingredients: sixteenth-century Arab and European herbal medicines, ideas that date back to Hippocrates, twentieth-century patent medicines, plant medicines from Africa, herbal wisdom from North American native tribes.
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- Title Infusions of Healing: A Treasury of Mexican-American Herbal Remedies
- Author Joie Davidow
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York
- Date 1999-10-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780684854168 / 0684854163
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Traditional medicine - North America, Herbs - Therapeutic use - North America
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99034047
- Dewey Decimal Code 615.321
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- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 121
- Library Journal, 07/01/2012, Page 43
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Fireside, 1999. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. The ancient Aztecs were expert horticulturists who cultivated and studied medicinal plants. Gardens flourished and were used by Aztec doctors as laboratories, and every family had a basic knowledge of herbal medicine. This rich, herbal-healing tradition has been passed along and modified by succeeding generations, and much of it is alive and well in Mexican American culture now. In Infusions of Healing, author Joie Davidow traces the history of this tradition. Then she presents a compendium of 200 herbs. For each, she gives the common name, botanical name, other names, description, historical use, scientific validation (if any), parts used, property, what it is used to treat, and any cautions. Another section presents herbal remedies organized by the type of treatment: digestive, urinary, respiratory, aches and pains, and so on. For example, you learn what herbs to use as "mouthwashes" for gum inflammation, how to make liniments for arthritic…
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