Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia or The Egyptian Yoga

Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia

Author: Anthony Cavender

In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He provides a complete tour of ailments and folk treatments organized by body systems, as well as information on medicinal plants, patent medicines, and magico-religious beliefs and practices. He investigates folk healers and their methods, profiling three living practitioners: an herbalist, a faith healer, and a Native American healer. The book also includes an appendix of botanicals and a glossary of folk medical terms.

Demonstrating the ongoing interplay between mainstream scientific medicine and folk medicine, Cavender challenges the conventional view of southern Appalachia as an exceptional region isolated from outside contact. His thorough and accessible study reveals how Appalachian folk medicine encompasses such diverse and important influences as European and Native American culture and America's changing medical and health-care environment. In doing so, he offers a compelling representation of the cultural history of the region as seen through its health practices.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: An Overview of Folk Medicine Research in Southern Appalachia	1
1	Health and Disease in Southern Appalachia	11
2	The Folk Medical Belief System	31
3	Folk Materia Medica	55
4	Folk Treatments	79
5	Folk Healers	147
6	Contemporary Perspectives on Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia	175
	App. A: Archival and Manuscript Sources	189
	App. B: Frequently Mentioned Medicinal Plants in Sources	197
	Glossary	203
	Notes	207
	Bibliography	241
	Index	259

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The Egyptian Yoga: Movements of the Gods and Goddesses

Author: Muata Abhaya Ashby

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EGYPTIAN YOGA The Postures of The Gods and Goddesses Discover the physical postures and exercises practiced thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt which are today known as Yoga exercises. Discover the history of the postures and how they were transferred from Ancient Egypt in Africa to India through Buddhist Tantrism. Then practice the postures as you discover the mythic teaching that originally gave birth to the postures and was practiced by the Ancient Egyptian priests and priestesses. This work is based on the pictures and teachings from the Creation story of Ra, The Asarian Resurrection Myth and the carvings and reliefs from various Temples in Ancient Egypt 8.5" X 11"