Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande
Subtitle: Traditional Medicine of the Southwest
Contributors: Michael Moore (Editor); Mimi Kamp (Illustrator); Mary Austin (Introduction)
Edition: Rev Sub edition
Publisher: Western Edge Press
Published: August 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781889921013
Subjects: Herbal Medications; New Mexico; Health & Fitness; Ethnobotany; Traditional medicine; Consumer Health; Materia medica, Vegetable; Health/Fitness; Indians of North America; Psychotherapy - General
Description: Perhaps more than any other influence Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande helped keep the herbal traditions of the Spanish Southwest alive and well. Moore comments that he has observed well used copies of this book in many adobe village homes, sometimes the only book besides the Bible. Mrs. Curtin lived and worked with the Spanish curanderas and abuelas (folk healers and elders), and Native Americans, learning herbal medicine first-hand from both traditions. In this new edition Moore has classified Latin names, added vital information on current usage and sources, added remedy and general indexes, and has offered alternative views on a number of plants. Written with precise botanical knowledge, this book is the seminal work on tradition home remedies of the Southwest.