After the first full moon in April : a sourcebook of herbal medicine from a California Indian elder / / Josephine Grant Peters and Beverly R. Ortiz ; including contributions from Cheryl Beck ... [et al.] ; Karuk plant names by James A. Ferrara

• Autore: Peters Josephine Grant
• Pubblicazione: Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.321089970794; 979.4/1004975; 979.41004975
• Soggetto topico: Herbs - Therapeutic use - California; Indian women healers - California; Karuk Indians - Medicine - California; Karuk Indians - California - Social life and customs; Karuk women - California
• Altri autori: BeckCheryl OrtizBev
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Spirit People; The Peppernut; The Peppernut Story; 1. A Life Well Lived; 2. Gathering Ethics; 3. Herbal Medicines and Native Plant Foods; 4. The Plants; 5. Non-herbal Cures; Endnotes; References; Plant Index; Medical Conditions Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this extraordinary book Josephine Peters, a respected northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant knowledge. The book begins with Josephine''s personal and tribal history and gathering ethics. Josephine then instructs the reader in medicinal and plant food preparations and offers an illustrated catalog of the uses and doses of over 160 plants. At a time of the commercialization of traditional ecological knowledge, Peters presents her rich tradition on her own terms, and according to her spiritual convictions about how her knowledge should
• Titolo autorizzato: After the first full moon in April
• ISBN: 1-315-43529-2; 1-61132-792-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959979503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II