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Author Peters, Josephine Grant

Title 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 [and others] ; Karuk plant names by James A. Ferrara
Published Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary Josephine Peters, a revered northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural knowledge on personal and tribal history, gathering ethics and preparations, then offers a catalogue of the uses and doses of over 160 plants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- California
Indian women healers -- California -- Biography
Karok Indians -- Medicine -- California
Karok Indians -- California -- Social life and customs
Karok women -- California -- Biography
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Herbal Medications.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use
Indian women healers
Karok Indians -- Social life and customs
Karok women
California
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Beck, Cheryl
Ortiz, Bev
LC no. 2009036627
ISBN 9781611327922
161132792X
1315435292
9781315435299