Working The Roots by Michele Elizabeth Lee

Subject headings African Americans- Medicine. Divided between sections on interviews of healers and their stories and a comprehensive collection of traditional African American medicines, remedies, and the many common ailments they were called upon to cure, Working The Roots is a valuable addition to African American history and American and African folk healing practices.'. She combines a novelist's keen ear for storytelling and dialogue and a healer's understanding of folk medicine arts into a book that makes for both pleasant, interesting reading, and serves as a permanent household healing guide. Lee over several years of living and studying in the rural South and in the West Coast regions of the United States. Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing is the result of first-hand interviews, conversations, and apprenticeships conducted and experienced by author Michele E. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American, European and other healing traditions to become a full-fledged body of medicinal practices that has lasted in various forms down to the present day. 'African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing Kindle Edition by Michele Elizabeth Lee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,206 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 26.01 8 Used from 21.98 18 New from 22.01 1 Collectible from 60.

Includes bibliographical references (page 374). Oakland, California : Wadastick Publishers, Working the roots : over 400 years of traditonal African American healing / by Michele E.

Working The Roots by Michele Elizabeth Lee