num_pages: 284
description: A guide to the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture and their place in Iroquois cosmology. Examines Iroquois folk conceptions of health and medicine, based on interviews with Iroquois elders. Describes medical practitioners such as herbalists and clairvoyants, Indian and white doctors, communal medicine, and counterwitchcraft. The bulk of the book is given to native names, uses, and preparations of medicinal plants from several different tribes. Black-and-white drawings accompany most entries. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Iroquois Medical Botany
titlecomplete: Iroquois Medical Botany (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors)
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr