Infusions of Healing
Subtitle: A Treasury of Mexican-American Herbal Remedies
Publisher: Fireside
Published: October 5, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780684854168
Subjects: Popular medicine; Traditional medicine & remedies; Therapeutic use; Herbs; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; North America; Health/Fitness; Materia medica, Vegetable; Folklore & Mythology; Herbal Medications; Health & Fitness / Herbal Medications; Alternative Medicine; Medicine; Mexican Americans
First sentence: 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.