Folk Healers (Heritage Amruth)
Book Specification
Item Code: | NAH145 |
Author: | Heritage Amruth |
Publisher: | Heritage Amruth |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2009 |
Pages: | 52 (Throughout B/W Illustrations) |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 11.0 inch x 7.5 inch |
Weight | 140 gm |
Book Description
About the Book
Grandma’s miracle potions of ginger tea and tulsi leaves have always been a part of our lives-traditional medicine that has answers to many complex health problems, including malaria and anaemia. These remedies live on as oral traditions amongst healers ........
Contents
Gardening Bone Vine: Cissus quadrangularis | 3 |
Focus: Empowering Folk Healers | 5 |
Folk Traditions: Folk Healers in India | 11 |
Awareness: Safeguarding Traditional Herbal Healers | 14 |
Plantscope: Plants in Folk Medicine | 17 |
Profile: Midas Healing Touch | 21 |
Children Page: Chaami and Buddu get a taste of Kokum | 25 |
Orthocare: Popular Puttur Kattu | 29 |
Healer: Healing Hands | 31 |
Folk Remedies: Fruit lore | 35 |
Folklore: The Name Game | 38 |
Ethnobotany: Biodiversity and Indian Traditions | 41 |
Feature: Treasure Hunt in the Deep Jungles of Dandeli | 46 |
Wisdom Page: ‘Maxim’um knowledge in a nut-shell | 48 |
Home Remedies: Cure from Nature | 49 |
Amruth Vaidya: Drive Away Your Doubts | 50 |