Medicinal plant resources for the burgeoning herbalist or survivor.
Abreu, Orlando A., Guillermo Barreto, and Sylvia Prieto. "Vaccinium (Ericaceae): Ethnobotany and Pharmacological Potential." EJFA Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture 25.10 (2013): n. pag. Web.
Bown, Deni. Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses. London; New York: Dorling Kindersley. 1995.
Bolyard, Judith L. Medicinal Plants and Home Remedies of Appalachia. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1981.
Bricklin, Mark. The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. New York: Dover Publications, 1989.
Hatfield, Gabrielle. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Print.
Hoffmann, David. Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts, 2003. Print.
Levinson, David, and Laura Gaccione. Health and Illness: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Cozzo, David. "Beyond Tall Tales: Ray Hicks and Mountain Herbalism." Appalachian Journal 30.4 (2003): 284-301. JSTOR. Web. 04 Nov. 2015.
Crellin John K. and Jane Philpott. Herbal Medicine Past and Present. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. in 2 vols. 1989. (See v. 1, Trying to Give Ease .)
Hand, Wayland Debs. Magical Medicine: The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Folk Belief, Custom, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Jones, Loyal. Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands. Urbana: University of Illinois Press., 1999.
Kirkland, James. Herbal and Magical Medicine: Traditional Healing Today. Durham: Duke UP, 1992. Print.
Wigginton, Eliot. The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing; Moonshining; and Other Affairs of Plain Living. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Print.
Guides, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries:
Brunvand, Jan Harold. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. N.p.: Hamden, CT: Garland, 1996.
Cavender, Anthony. A Folk Medical Lexicon of South Central Appalachia. Johnson City, TN: History of Medicine Society of Appalachia, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State U, 1990.
Krochmal, Arnold, Russell S. Walters, and Richard M. Doughty. A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. Washington: U.S. Forest Service, 1971.
Rinzler, Carol Ann. Dictionary of Medical Folklore. New York: Crowell, 1979.
Bibliographies:
Appalachian Bibliography, 1980 . Morgantown: West Virginia University Library. 2 vols. in one. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 A6 1980. See entries: 2104, 2107, 4876, 3417, 3432. Categories: Faith Healing, Folk Medicine, Health, Religion.
Appalachian Outlook. Morgantown West Virginia University Library. 1964 -- present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 A55. Includes 54 citations relevant to topic, from 1967-2002 . See entries: 100, 981, 990, 1273, 1275, 1288, 3318, 3323, 3432, 3819, 4459, 4505, 4953, 5313, 5484, 5596, 5787, 6057, 6605, 6612, 6622, 7176, 7265, 7418, 7430, 7725, 7728, 7855, 7857, 7911, 8395, 8871, 8964, 9409, 9445, 9886, 9915, 9916, 10217, 10490, 10561, 10836, 10976, 10977, 11137, 11193, 11194, 11195, 11244, 11289, 11306, 11391, 11534, 11783, 11815, 11823, 11928, and 11963. Categories: Folk Medicine, Healing, Herbs, Holiness Churches, Religion, and Snake Cults.
Bibliography of Southern Appalachia. Charlotte T. Ross, ed. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1976. ASU APP COLL OVERSIZE: Z1251 .A7 B5x. Entries indexed by subject and author. Includes 30 entries relevant to topic, plus two entries in the film listing entries: B4660, C3920, C4700, C6690, C6700, C6710, G6610, H2130, H2160, H2650, H6650, J230, L10, L20, P1620, S2700, T7720, W40, and W7170. Numbers 24 and 80 are in the film index. Categories: Folk Medicine, Folk Medicine in Appalachia, Folk Medicine in North Carolina, Medicinal Plants and Herbs, Medicinal Plants--Appalachia, Religion and Religious Bodies--Appalachia-- Snake Handlers, Religion and Religious Bodies--Appalachia--Snake Handling Cults. Two films in the film index: Catfish, Man of the Woods, and Nature s Way. Both are available in the App Coll. See video listing below.
Cavender, Anthony P. A Bibliography on Culture and Health in the Appalachian South with Special Reference to Ethnomedical Beliefs and Practices. Prepared for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
Journals:
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review. Boone, NC: Appalachian State University. v. 1, 1972 to present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F216.2 .A66. Indexed in vols. 7, 18, and 23.
Foxfire(earlier title: v. 1 - 26:2, 1967-1992). Foxfire Magazine (current title: v.26:3, 1992 to present) . Rabun Gap, GA: Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Eilertsen, John. Catfish, Man of the Woods: A Study of a West Virginian Folk Healer. N.p.: n.p., 1992. Print.
Nature’s Way. Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, 1973. 1 videocassette, 22 mins.
Crowder, Steven. Black Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. Thesis (M.S.)--East Tennessee State University, 2001. ASU SPEC APP COLL MIC MicF 942
Cozzo, David N. Herb Gatherers and Root Diggers of North Western North Carolina. Thesis (M.A.)-- Appalachian State University. 1999.
Timah, Nga Joseph. Comparison of the Cultural, Taxonomic, and Ecological Aspects of Medicinal Plants in Cameroon and North Carolina: Causes of Rarity and Potential Solutions. Thesis (M.S.)-- Appalachian State University. 52 leaves, maps.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Folk Medicine of Appalachia: A Vanishing Tradition. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 340 pp.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Life & Thymes of an Appalachian Herbalist [Clarence Frederick Gray, also known as Catfish Gray; W.Va.]. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 75 pp.
Cavender, Anthony, and Steve Crowder. 2002. “White-Livered Widders and Bad-Blooded Men: Folk Illness and Sexual Disorder in Southern Appalachia.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11 (October): 637-649.
Cavender, Anthony, Vivian Gonzales Gladson, Jorja Cummings, and Michele Hammet. 2011. “Curanderismo in Appalachia: The Use of Remedios Caseros among Latinos in Northeastern Tennessee.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 17, no. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 144-167. Examines Latino traditional medical beliefs and practices, and discusses their similarity with traditional Appalachian folk remedies. Tables list medicinal plants, and animal substances.
Crellin, John K., Jane Philpott, and A. L. Tommie Bass. [1990] 1997. Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine. Durham: Duke University Press. 335 pp. (Previously published as vol. 1 of Herbal Medicine Past and Present)
Felton, Tom. 2008. “A Life Well Spent: ‘Doc Pete’ of Parsons” [Tucker Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 3 (Fall): 40-45. Dr. Guy H. Michael, Jr., fourth-generation physician; b. 1925.
Gainer, Patrick W. 2008. “Folk Cures.” In Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians, comp. P. Gainer, 100-111. 2nd ed. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 100 common medicines and brief uses.
Howell, Patricia Kyritsi. 2006. Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians [guidebook: 45 plants; therapeutic index]. Mountain City, Ga.: BotanoLogos Books. 262 pp.
Hatfield, Gabrielle. 2004. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions [Britain, Ireland, North America; approx. 230 topics, with references]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 392 pp.
Online Archive of American Folk Medicine [200,000 folk remedies]. Established 1996. Director, Michael Owen Jones, University of California, Los Angeles. Advanced Search mode allows limiting by Mountain South location; “contains material from the UCLA Archive of American Folk Medicine established by Wayland D. Hand in the 1940s.” http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/index.html.
Parker, Maggie Hammons. 2010. “Hammons Family Remedies” [23 herbal remedies]. Old-Time Herald 12, no. 4 (April-May): 31. Used by the family of this Pocahontas Co., W.Va. ballad singer. http://oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/index.html.
Rago, Linda Ours. 2000. Blackberry Cove Herbal: Healing with Common Herbs in the Appalachian Wise-Woman Tradition. Sterling, Va.: Capital Books. 166 pp.
Ramey, Crystal, and Jenna Davis. 1998. “Healing the Natural Way” [interview with Ga. herbalist Charles Thurmond]. Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 47-51.
Wigginton, Elliot. Foxfire 4: Fiddle Making, Springhouses, Horsetrading, Sassafras Tea, Berry Buckets, Gardening, and Further Affairs of Plain Living. New York, N.Y: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1977: p. 160-186. ASU APP COLL and MAIN F291.2 .F623 C.2.
Smith, Margaret Charles, and Linda Janet Holmes. 1996. Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Greene County; 91-year-old
Thomas, James G., and Charles Reagan Wilson, ed. 2012. Science & Medicine,Vol. 22 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 281 pp. Thirty-eight essays and 46 shorter entries written by experts, including: Folk Medicine | Healers, Women | Health, Rural | Poverty, Effects of | Faith Healing | Frontier Nursing Service | HIV/AIDS | Medicine Shows.
Veteto, James R. "Down Deep In The Holler: Chasing Seeds And Stories In Southern Appalachia." Journal Of Ethnobiology And Ethnomedicine 9.1 (2013): 69. MEDLINE. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.
Price, Edward T. "Root Digging In The Appalachians: The Geography Of Botanical Drugs." Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife. 242-262. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.
Almond, Greenbrier. 2012. Stories of a West Virginia Doctor’s Son [M.D.; b. 1948; Upshur Co.]. McClain Printing Co. 116 pp. The author has worked for many years as a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Clarksburg, W.Va. See also: The Stories of a West Virginia Doctor (1995-1997), by Dr. Harold Almond, the author’s father.
Almond, Harold D., and Greenbrier Almond. 1997-2005. The Stories of a West Virginia Doctor. Parsons, W.Va: McClain Printing Co. Vol. 1. [without special title] -- vol. 2. Tender loving care: stories of Harold Almond, MD [1915-1999], as told to Greenbrier Almond, MD.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Folk Medicine of Appalachia: A Vanishing Tradition. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 340 pp.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Life & Thymes of an Appalachian Herbalist [Clarence Frederick Gray, also known as Catfish Gray; W.Va.]. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 75 pp.
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Baird, Nancy Disher. 2007. Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State [adult reader]. New Books for New Readers series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 55 pp.
Barney, Sandra Lee. 1999. “Maternalism and the Promotion of Scientific Medicine During the Industrial Transformation of Appalachia, 1880-1930.” NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 68-92.
Barney, Sandra Lee. 2000. Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Central Appalachia, 1880-1930 [Ky., Va., W.Va.; women in medicine: physicians, nurses, midwives]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 222 pp.
Barney, Sandra. 1996. “Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains: Scientific Medicine and the Transformation of Health Care in Southern West Virginia, 1880-1910.” West Virginia History 55 (1996): 110-126.
Burkett, Gary L., Richard P. Mulcahy, and Pamela M. Zahorik, section editors. 2006. “Health” [signed entries]. In Encyclopedia of Appalachia, ed. R. Abramson and J. Haskell, 1631-1677 (with introductory essay, 1631-1636). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Cavender, Anthony, and Steve Crowder. 2002. “White-Livered Widders and Bad-Blooded Men: Folk Illness and Sexual Disorder in Southern Appalachia.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11 (October): 637-649.
Cavender, Anthony P. 2003. Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia [authoritative history]. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 266 pp.
Cavender, Anthony, Vivian Gonzales Gladson, Jorja Cummings, and Michele Hammet. 2011.
Cavender, Anthony. "Curanderismo in Appalachia: The Use of Remedios Caseros among Latinos in Northeastern Tennessee." Journal of Appalachian Studies 17.1/2 (2011): 144-67. JSTOR. Web. 04 Nov. 2015. Examines Latino traditional medical beliefs and practices, and discusses their similarity with traditional Appalachian folk remedies. Tables list medicinal plants, and animal substances.
Cavender, Anthony. 1996. “Local Unorthodox Healers of Cancer in the Appalachian South.” Journal of Community Health 21 (October): 359-374.
Cavender, Anthony. 2005. “A Midwife’s Commonplace Book.” Appalachian Journal 32, no. 2 (Winter): 182-190. Cora Reeves; 1898-1941; Southwestern Va. and Western N.C. folk medicine.
Cavender, Anthony. 2006. “Folk Medical Uses of Plant Foods in Southern Appalachia, United States.” Journal of Ethnopharmacology 108, no. 1 (November): 74-84.
Chase, Nan. 2004. “Ray Hicks: The Mysterious Healer” [legendary storyteller is also a faith healer; warts]. Appalachian Heritage 32 (Spring): 38-45.
Cooper, E. R. 2012. “Memories of a Country Doctor” [b. Gilmer Co.; 1878-1976], as told to Willa Jane Loftis, granddaughter. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 3 (Fall): 50-55.
Cozzo, David. 2003. “Beyond Tall Tales: Ray Hicks and Mountain Herbalism” [folk illnesses; plant remedies]. Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 284-301.
Crellin, John K., and Jane Philpott. [1990] 1997. A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants:.Herbal Medicine Past and Present [based on the practice of herbalist A.L. "Tommie" Bass]. Durham: Duke University Press. 551 pp. (Previously published as vol. 2 of Herbal Medicine Past and Present)
Crellin, John K., Jane Philpott, and A. L. Tommie Bass. [1990] 1997. Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine. Durham: Duke University Press. 335 pp. (Previously published as vol. 1 of Herbal Medicine Past and Present)
Davis, Joel. 1996. “Faith and Medicine” [ETSU medical school curriculum]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Winter): 15-17.
Dickinson, W. Calvin. 2009. “‘To Help Bring Health to This Mountain’: Dr. May Cravath Wharton, the ‘Doctor Woman’ of Cumberland County, Tennessee” [1873-1959; Pleasant Hill]. Journal of East Tennessee History 81: 3-18.
Dockery, Bill. 2000. “Telemedicine: A Marriage of Medicine & Technology” [University of Tennessee outreach: Tenn., N.C., Ky., Va.]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Spring): 26-28.
Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. [1979] 1989. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. New York: Dover Publications. 512 pp. Reprint. Originally published as Use of Plants for the Past 500 Years, Aurora, Ontario, Canada: Breezy Creeks Press.
Gainer, Patrick W. 2008. “Folk Cures.” In Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians, comp. P. Gainer, 100-111. 2nd ed. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 100 common medicines and brief uses.
Halperin, Rhoda H., and Jennifer Reiter-Purtill. 2005. “‘Nerves’ in Rural and Urban Appalachia” [folk term; anxiety and depression]. Chap. 12 in Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals, ed. S. Keefe, 265-284. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Hatfield, Gabrielle. 2004. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions [Britain, Ireland, North America; approx. 230 topics, with references]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 392 pp.
Howell, Patricia Kyritsi. 2006. Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians [guidebook: 45 plants; therapeutic index]. Mountain City, Ga.: BotanoLogos Books. 262 pp.
Parker, Maggie Hammons. 2010. “Hammons Family Remedies” [23 herbal remedies]. Old-Time Herald 12, no. 4 (April-May): 31. Used by the family of this Pocahontas Co., W.Va. ballad singer. http://oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/index.html.
Rago, Linda Ours. 2000. Blackberry Cove Herbal: Healing with Common Herbs in the Appalachian Wise-Woman Tradition. Sterling, Va.: Capital Books. 166 pp.
Ramey, Crystal, and Jenna Davis. 1998. “Healing the Natural Way” [interview with Ga. herbalist Charles Thurmond]. Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 47-51.
Schultz, Katey. 2007. “Mountains of Tea” [Western N.C. herbalist, Joe Hollis; Chinese botanical garden]. Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 23, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 20-23.
Smoot, Richard C. 1995. “Medical History Notes From Appalachia.” Appalachian Heritage 23 (Fall): 21-28.
Hunter, Lacy. Foxfire 11 The Old Homeplace Wild Plant Uses Preserving And Cooking Food Hunting Stories Fishing And More Affairs Of Plain Living. n.p.: Anchor Books, 1999. Children's Literature Comprehensive Database. Web. 26 Oct. 2015.
Bown, Deni. Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses. London; New York: Dorling Kindersley. 1995.
Bolyard, Judith L. Medicinal Plants and Home Remedies of Appalachia. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1981.
Bricklin, Mark. The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. New York: Dover Publications, 1989.
Hatfield, Gabrielle. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Print.
Hoffmann, David. Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts, 2003. Print.
Levinson, David, and Laura Gaccione. Health and Illness: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Cozzo, David. "Beyond Tall Tales: Ray Hicks and Mountain Herbalism." Appalachian Journal 30.4 (2003): 284-301. JSTOR. Web. 04 Nov. 2015.
Crellin John K. and Jane Philpott. Herbal Medicine Past and Present. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. in 2 vols. 1989. (See v. 1, Trying to Give Ease .)
Hand, Wayland Debs. Magical Medicine: The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Folk Belief, Custom, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Jones, Loyal. Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands. Urbana: University of Illinois Press., 1999.
Kirkland, James. Herbal and Magical Medicine: Traditional Healing Today. Durham: Duke UP, 1992. Print.
Wigginton, Eliot. The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing; Moonshining; and Other Affairs of Plain Living. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Print.
Guides, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries:
Brunvand, Jan Harold. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. N.p.: Hamden, CT: Garland, 1996.
Cavender, Anthony. A Folk Medical Lexicon of South Central Appalachia. Johnson City, TN: History of Medicine Society of Appalachia, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State U, 1990.
Krochmal, Arnold, Russell S. Walters, and Richard M. Doughty. A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. Washington: U.S. Forest Service, 1971.
Rinzler, Carol Ann. Dictionary of Medical Folklore. New York: Crowell, 1979.
Bibliographies:
Appalachian Bibliography, 1980 . Morgantown: West Virginia University Library. 2 vols. in one. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 A6 1980. See entries: 2104, 2107, 4876, 3417, 3432. Categories: Faith Healing, Folk Medicine, Health, Religion.
Appalachian Outlook. Morgantown West Virginia University Library. 1964 -- present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: Z1251 .A7 A55. Includes 54 citations relevant to topic, from 1967-2002 . See entries: 100, 981, 990, 1273, 1275, 1288, 3318, 3323, 3432, 3819, 4459, 4505, 4953, 5313, 5484, 5596, 5787, 6057, 6605, 6612, 6622, 7176, 7265, 7418, 7430, 7725, 7728, 7855, 7857, 7911, 8395, 8871, 8964, 9409, 9445, 9886, 9915, 9916, 10217, 10490, 10561, 10836, 10976, 10977, 11137, 11193, 11194, 11195, 11244, 11289, 11306, 11391, 11534, 11783, 11815, 11823, 11928, and 11963. Categories: Folk Medicine, Healing, Herbs, Holiness Churches, Religion, and Snake Cults.
Bibliography of Southern Appalachia. Charlotte T. Ross, ed. Boone: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1976. ASU APP COLL OVERSIZE: Z1251 .A7 B5x. Entries indexed by subject and author. Includes 30 entries relevant to topic, plus two entries in the film listing entries: B4660, C3920, C4700, C6690, C6700, C6710, G6610, H2130, H2160, H2650, H6650, J230, L10, L20, P1620, S2700, T7720, W40, and W7170. Numbers 24 and 80 are in the film index. Categories: Folk Medicine, Folk Medicine in Appalachia, Folk Medicine in North Carolina, Medicinal Plants and Herbs, Medicinal Plants--Appalachia, Religion and Religious Bodies--Appalachia-- Snake Handlers, Religion and Religious Bodies--Appalachia--Snake Handling Cults. Two films in the film index: Catfish, Man of the Woods, and Nature s Way. Both are available in the App Coll. See video listing below.
Cavender, Anthony P. A Bibliography on Culture and Health in the Appalachian South with Special Reference to Ethnomedical Beliefs and Practices. Prepared for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.
Journals:
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review. Boone, NC: Appalachian State University. v. 1, 1972 to present. ASU APP COLL STACKS: F216.2 .A66. Indexed in vols. 7, 18, and 23.
Foxfire(earlier title: v. 1 - 26:2, 1967-1992). Foxfire Magazine (current title: v.26:3, 1992 to present) . Rabun Gap, GA: Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Eilertsen, John. Catfish, Man of the Woods: A Study of a West Virginian Folk Healer. N.p.: n.p., 1992. Print.
Nature’s Way. Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, 1973. 1 videocassette, 22 mins.
Crowder, Steven. Black Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia. Thesis (M.S.)--East Tennessee State University, 2001. ASU SPEC APP COLL MIC MicF 942
Cozzo, David N. Herb Gatherers and Root Diggers of North Western North Carolina. Thesis (M.A.)-- Appalachian State University. 1999.
Timah, Nga Joseph. Comparison of the Cultural, Taxonomic, and Ecological Aspects of Medicinal Plants in Cameroon and North Carolina: Causes of Rarity and Potential Solutions. Thesis (M.S.)-- Appalachian State University. 52 leaves, maps.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Folk Medicine of Appalachia: A Vanishing Tradition. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 340 pp.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Life & Thymes of an Appalachian Herbalist [Clarence Frederick Gray, also known as Catfish Gray; W.Va.]. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 75 pp.
Cavender, Anthony, and Steve Crowder. 2002. “White-Livered Widders and Bad-Blooded Men: Folk Illness and Sexual Disorder in Southern Appalachia.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11 (October): 637-649.
Cavender, Anthony, Vivian Gonzales Gladson, Jorja Cummings, and Michele Hammet. 2011. “Curanderismo in Appalachia: The Use of Remedios Caseros among Latinos in Northeastern Tennessee.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 17, no. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 144-167. Examines Latino traditional medical beliefs and practices, and discusses their similarity with traditional Appalachian folk remedies. Tables list medicinal plants, and animal substances.
Crellin, John K., Jane Philpott, and A. L. Tommie Bass. [1990] 1997. Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine. Durham: Duke University Press. 335 pp. (Previously published as vol. 1 of Herbal Medicine Past and Present)
Felton, Tom. 2008. “A Life Well Spent: ‘Doc Pete’ of Parsons” [Tucker Co.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 3 (Fall): 40-45. Dr. Guy H. Michael, Jr., fourth-generation physician; b. 1925.
Gainer, Patrick W. 2008. “Folk Cures.” In Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians, comp. P. Gainer, 100-111. 2nd ed. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press. 100 common medicines and brief uses.
Howell, Patricia Kyritsi. 2006. Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians [guidebook: 45 plants; therapeutic index]. Mountain City, Ga.: BotanoLogos Books. 262 pp.
Hatfield, Gabrielle. 2004. Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions [Britain, Ireland, North America; approx. 230 topics, with references]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 392 pp.
Online Archive of American Folk Medicine [200,000 folk remedies]. Established 1996. Director, Michael Owen Jones, University of California, Los Angeles. Advanced Search mode allows limiting by Mountain South location; “contains material from the UCLA Archive of American Folk Medicine established by Wayland D. Hand in the 1940s.” http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/index.html.
Parker, Maggie Hammons. 2010. “Hammons Family Remedies” [23 herbal remedies]. Old-Time Herald 12, no. 4 (April-May): 31. Used by the family of this Pocahontas Co., W.Va. ballad singer. http://oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/index.html.
Rago, Linda Ours. 2000. Blackberry Cove Herbal: Healing with Common Herbs in the Appalachian Wise-Woman Tradition. Sterling, Va.: Capital Books. 166 pp.
Ramey, Crystal, and Jenna Davis. 1998. “Healing the Natural Way” [interview with Ga. herbalist Charles Thurmond]. Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 47-51.
Wigginton, Elliot. Foxfire 4: Fiddle Making, Springhouses, Horsetrading, Sassafras Tea, Berry Buckets, Gardening, and Further Affairs of Plain Living. New York, N.Y: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1977: p. 160-186. ASU APP COLL and MAIN F291.2 .F623 C.2.
Smith, Margaret Charles, and Linda Janet Holmes. 1996. Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Greene County; 91-year-old
Thomas, James G., and Charles Reagan Wilson, ed. 2012. Science & Medicine,Vol. 22 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 281 pp. Thirty-eight essays and 46 shorter entries written by experts, including: Folk Medicine | Healers, Women | Health, Rural | Poverty, Effects of | Faith Healing | Frontier Nursing Service | HIV/AIDS | Medicine Shows.
Veteto, James R. "Down Deep In The Holler: Chasing Seeds And Stories In Southern Appalachia." Journal Of Ethnobiology And Ethnomedicine 9.1 (2013): 69. MEDLINE. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.
Price, Edward T. "Root Digging In The Appalachians: The Geography Of Botanical Drugs." Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife. 242-262. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.
Almond, Greenbrier. 2012. Stories of a West Virginia Doctor’s Son [M.D.; b. 1948; Upshur Co.]. McClain Printing Co. 116 pp. The author has worked for many years as a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Clarksburg, W.Va. See also: The Stories of a West Virginia Doctor (1995-1997), by Dr. Harold Almond, the author’s father.
Almond, Harold D., and Greenbrier Almond. 1997-2005. The Stories of a West Virginia Doctor. Parsons, W.Va: McClain Printing Co. Vol. 1. [without special title] -- vol. 2. Tender loving care: stories of Harold Almond, MD [1915-1999], as told to Greenbrier Almond, MD.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Folk Medicine of Appalachia: A Vanishing Tradition. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 340 pp.
Amjad, Hassan. 2005. Life & Thymes of an Appalachian Herbalist [Clarence Frederick Gray, also known as Catfish Gray; W.Va.]. Beckley, W.Va.: H. Amjad. 75 pp.
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Baird, Nancy Disher. 2007. Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State [adult reader]. New Books for New Readers series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 55 pp.
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