Brews and Potions
A Hand Book of Remedies, Spells, Elixirs, Cordialls and Aphrodisiacs
ISBN: 0238789101
ISBN-13: 9780238789106
Format: Book
|
Customer Reviews
Review this book!
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: H. Evelyn
Published date: 1968
Pages: 80
Similar books
Western Medicine As Contested Knowledge
by Andrew Cunningham
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
A detailed and historically-informed account of the cultural practices and meaning of health care in urban Japan. The text discusses everyday hygienic practices, as well as formalized medicine that combines traditional treatments with Western biomedicine.
The Medicine Wheel Garden
by E. Barrie Kavasch
Integrating plant lore, history, and tradition, the author of American Indian Healing Arts presents a richly illustrated guide on how to create personal sacred spaces in the form of gardens, meditation landscapes, and outdoor altars, explaining how to design, construct, and plant medicine wheel gardens filled with medicinal herbs and life-enhancing energies. Original.
Medical Ethnobiology of the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
by Brent Berlin
Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking peoples, the Tzeltal and Tzotzil, reveal that they have developed a large number of herbal remedies based on a highly sophisticated understanding of the physiology and symptomatology of common diseases and on an in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants. Here Elois Ann Berlin and Brent Berlin, along with their many collaborators, provide detailed information on Maya disease classification, symptomatology, and treatment of the most significant health conditions affecting the Highland Maya, the gastrointestinal diseases. The authors base their work on broad-ranging comparative ethno-medical and ethnobotanical data collected over seven years of original field research. In describing the Mayas' understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, Berlin and Berlin show that the plants used as remedies are condition specific. Moreover, laboratory studies demonstrate that the most commonly agreed upon herbal remedies are potentially effective against the pathogenic agents underlying specific diseases and that they strongly affect the physiological processes associated with intestinal peristalsis. These findings suggest that the traditional Maya medical system is the result of long-term explicit empirical experimentation with the effects of herbal remedies on bodily function.
Herbal Medicine
by R. F. Weiss
|
|
Ready to buy this book?
Below are all of the copies of 9780238789106 we currently have available for purchase, sorted by lowest price first. If you would like to refine your search, use the advanced options in the search box above.
|
|
0 items in cart
Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved. Some content for books is owned by Baker & Taylor, Inc. or its licensors and is subject to copyright and all other protections provided by applicable law.
