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35293
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The author lists ingredients commonly found in drugstores that were included in people’s home remedies. Along with the ingredient, Wilson lists what it was ailments it was used for.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 16 Issue 1, May 1968,
p58-62
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35802
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With knowledge passed down from generations, Flora Johnson sold herbal remedies for a wide array of ailments, including arthritis, diabetes, the common cold, and upset stomachs. q
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 1, May 1979,
p20-25, il, por
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35048
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A short story about the superstitions that a screech owl could foretell a death.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Sept 1954,
p18-19
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Record #:
16458
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When folk medicines are mentioned, most people think only of vegetable products. It is true that the gathering and preparing of leaves, roots, and bark took a large portion of the time of the old-fashioned folk medicine specialists, but many mineral and animal products were always at hand to be used as ready-made medicines or as the base for various mixtures.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Nov 1968,
p177-181
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16422
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The conjure doctor in eastern North Carolina evolved from a tradition of African voodoo, native Indian practices, and Anglo-American folk healing. The perpetuation of the conjure doctor in the South centralized in areas of low economic and educational standards.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Feb 1972,
p21-29, il
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Record #:
15392
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Yates provides a list of some of the home remedies which are still being used religiously by hundreds of people in various parts of North Carolina, and other states as well. Some of these remedies include: mare's milk for whooping cough, wear a dime around the neck to prevent painful teething, and Indian flints are good for persons suffering from kidney trouble provided they are boiled in water and the water is drunk regularly.
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16396
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Herb doctors filled a gap in American history when doctors were scarce and expensive. Today the herb doctors are very few and tend to take their secrets with them. In Scotland and Robeson counties of North Carolina herb doctors still work with various herbs in various methods.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 4, Nov 1973,
p166-170
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Record #:
35132
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This is a list of remedies that can be made at the home for ailments such as itchiness, wounds, coughing, and more serious illnesses like the measles.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Dec 1956,
p17-18
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Record #:
23704
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The Madstone or “Bezoar Stone” was once believed to be the most highly prized piece of medicine anyone could possess. These stones were used to treat snakebites, rabies and lock jaw and were passed down in families for generations. Dr. R. G. Cobb of Kinston, NC owned a madstone passed down in his family. There were other popular remedies long ago that included “Asafetida bags,” also called “Devil’s Dung,” stinky bags put around the necks of children to keep flu, disease and evil spirits away. There was “Father John’s,” that tasted like licorice and cod-liver oil. There was “Terpine Hydrate Cough Expectorate,” that contained codeine that would knock out kids for 14 hours. There were parents who believed in Musterrol, Vicks salve, and Castoria, a castor oil substitute.
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Record #:
16361
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The literature of folk medicine indicates that for several centuries many folk believed without reservation in the magical power of madstones, supposedly originating as hair or fiber balls in the stomachs of ruminants such as deer, cow, or buffalo. Others were tabasheer, an opal found in the joints of bamboo, while still others were picked in open fields or river beds being associated with halloysite, a clay mineral. These stones were applied to wounds to absorb venom. Clark discusses their ownership, physical origins and characteristics, their uses in treating wounds, their efficacy, and the views of the believers and unbelievers.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Mar 1976,
p3-40, bibl, f
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Record #:
16314
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Shaw discusses the life and career of a native North Carolina folk doctor, Cicero West.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 28 Issue 1, May 1980,
p22-41, il, f
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Record #:
16357
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This listing is a supplement to Professor Clark's Madstones in North Carolina (presented in North Carolina Folklore Journal March 1976, Vol. 24:1), an exhaustive study of the curious natural stones and stone-like products of the stomachs and gall bladders of animals used in folk medicine.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p33-35
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Record #:
16367
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North Carolina, like most parts of the nation, has inherited much medical folklore from British, European, and other sources. Among the most tenacious early folk medical practices to live on into the 20th-century is the primitive custom of pulling patients through or passing them through holes in trees, stones, or in the earth, or moving them, or causing them to walk, crawl, or creep through a variety of natural or man-made apertures for the curing of disease.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 1, Feb 1975,
p11-15, f
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Record #:
35926
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It was proof that fashion—albeit of the folk remedy variety--always comes back around. Among the remedies were recommendations for illnesses such as colds and croup. Others were suggestions for nail and bees sting injuries. Others were proposals for hair and oral health.
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Record #:
16496
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For over two hundred years many Southern people have been discovering, rediscovering, and adapting a large variety of medicinal preparations and other homemade articles such as dyes, recipes, and cleaning compounds. Folklore journals, diaries, manuscripts, and medical journals reveal the enormous extent of southern remedial lore.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 8 Issue 2, Dec 1960,
p26-31
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