Iroquois Medical Botany

Iroquois Medical Botany is the first guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. It links Iroquois cosmology to cultural themes by showing the inherent spiritual power of plants and how the Iroquois traditionally have used and continue to use plants as remedies.

Foreword

ix

Dean R. Snow

Preface

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

Plants in the Cosmos of the Iroquois

5

(20)

The Story of Creation

5

(5)

Iroquois Value Orientations

10

(6)

The Iroquois Cosmos

16

(1)

The Relative Degree of Power Possessed by Various Things and Events in the Iroquois Cosmos

16

(2)

The Classifications of Plants in Traditional Iroquois Culture

18

(1)

The Power of Plants in Traditional Iroquois Culture

19

(6)

Folk Conceptions of Health and Medicine

25

(8)

How and Why Folk Medicines Work

28

(5)

Conceptions of Illness in Traditional Iroquois Culture

33

(32)

Iroquois Notions Regarding Causes of Imbalances in Human Beings

34

(3)

Offensive Behavioral Acts or Taboo Violation

37

(1)

Unfulfilled Desires

38

(2)

Things, Events, People, and Places that Radiate or Exude Evil

40

(2)

Witchcraft

42

(2)

Borrowed Notions

44

(1)

Internal Manifestations of Imbalances as They Relate to Native, Etiological Categories

45

(1)

Relationships Existing between Etiological Categories and Symptoms

46

(1)

Iroquois ``Disease'' Categories

47

(18)

Medical Treatments in Traditional Iroquois Culture

65

(24)

Self-addressed and Lay Health Actor Phases of Treatment

66

(1)

Preventive Concepts and Medicines

66

(2)

Herbalists/Clairvoyants

68

(1)

Collection Techniques

69

(4)

Divination Techniques

73

(3)

White Doctors

76

(1)

Faith, Confidence, and Peace of Mind Medicines

77

(2)

Communal Medical Practices

79

(1)

The Relationship between Individual and Communal Medical Practices in Traditional Iroquois Culture

80

(1)

Doings

81

(1)

Medicine Societies

82

(3)

Indian Doctors

85

(2)

Counterwitchcraft

87

(2)

Powerful Medicinal Plants in Traditional Iroquois Culture

89

(6)

Native Names, Uses, and Preparations of Plants

95

(156)

Iroquois Authorities

95

(156)

References Cited

251

(4)

Plant Picture Credits

255

(2)

Index

257

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Iroquois Medical Botany

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