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Healing Plants - by Alice Micco Snow & Susan Enns Stans (Paperback)

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  • The first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Alice Snow from generations of her Native American ancestors.The authors' overview of Seminole history, native medicine, and the life of Snow, a Seminole herbalist (illustrated with personal photographs) places the healing practices in their cultural context and describes actual treatments.
  • About the Author: Alice Micco Snow is an elder of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
  • 168 Pages
  • Social Science, Ethnic Studies

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The first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Alice Snow from generations of her Native American ancestors.



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The first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Alice Snow from generations of her Native American ancestors.

The authors' overview of Seminole history, native medicine, and the life of Snow, a Seminole herbalist (illustrated with personal photographs) places the healing practices in their cultural context and describes actual treatments. Charts with plant names in Creek, Mikasuki, and English and lists of plant properties with their common and botanical names offer easy reference. Col Color photographs provide clear illustrations of many of the plants.

Herbal treatments include those intended for babies, for people who have had a hysterectomy, a stroke, blackouts or shortness of breath, "monkey sickness," alligator bites, or a speeding heart, people who have pain or have been ill for a long time, who like to sleep all the time or can't sleep because of worry or bad dreams, who are pregnant or "on the wagon" or have lost wives or husbands.

Alice Snow is both a traditional Seminole and a cultural innovator who combines old and new methods of preserving and teaching "Indian medicine." Her record of medicinal plants and remedies is her contribution toward helping the Seminoles to hold onto their past while living in the present and moving toward the future. Though the book does not reveal the tribal doctors' secret healing songs, believed to empower the plants, it provides Seminoles with a reference handbook of plants; it also offers medical professionals, herbalists, and the general public an understanding of the world of Seminole medicine.




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"A revealing book that examines . . . the healing arts of tribal culture."--American Indian Quarterly



About the Author



Alice Micco Snow is an elder of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Speaking English, Creek, and Mikasuki, she has worked all her life as a translator and a herbalist for the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Susan Enns Stans, assistant professor of anthropology at Florida Gulf Coast University, works actively with the Seminole staff on education issues and college classes and has written articles on Florida culture and on her work with the Seminoles.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.8 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 168
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Ethnic Studies
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Format: Paperback
Author: Alice Micco Snow & Susan Enns Stans
Language: English
Street Date: September 1, 2015
TCIN: 81472472
UPC: 9780813061726
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-0025
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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