Re: Native American Medicine

Ted Burton (tedbrtn@cyberhighway.net)
Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:43:55 -0700

easu1979@ea.oac.uci.edu (Carolyn Ann Kelleher) writes:
>
> Hi, I am a student in a Native American Studies course at UCI. My term
> paper topic is Native American Medicinal Practices Pre-European Contact.
> My university's library has a very limited Native American section. I
> have found Virgil Vogel's work very helpful. I am looking for more
> information regarding medicine as a whole, not just herbology. If anyone
> knows of any sources that would help, please let me know. Thank you for
> your time.

This one is off topic, I suppose. But I have heard many stories among the
Ahtna folks about the miners/explorers who died of scurvy on the Copper
River trails, laughing to the last at the Indians drinking that spruce bark
tea that tasted like turpentine, loaded as it is with vitamin C.

Or my friends the Dena'ina chewing willow for toothache.

Ah yes, lo the dumb Indian.

Share your learning with us when you are done. And don't laugh at the tea
drinkers.

Thanks for listening.
Ted

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