Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
heartburn |
ingested - She Sage. Sweet Sage, Old Man, Parsturage Sage Brush. |
conjury, insomnia, death |
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conjury |
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throat, sore |
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conjury, objects in body, animal |
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consumption |
performed - burn the heart of the last deceased in the family who have died of consumption |
erysipelas |
performed - heat iron shovel in fire, place thread on shovel, wave shovel over affected area, while chanting certain phrases. |
stomach ailments |
Patent Medicine Dr Tichenor’s Antiseptic |
conjury |
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colic |
ingested - wild alum |
illness, healer traditions |
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leprosy |
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heartburn |
ingested - pine needles |
illness, healer traditions |
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conjury |
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conjury |
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dropsy, edema |
performed - elaborate ceremony |
heartburn |
ingested - raw sweet potato |
boils |
performed - juniper leaves blown onto boils from doctors mouth, Ho’ma (ceremonial cornmeal) blown onto chest. |
fever |
performed - needle sheep's heart, burn it. |
conjury, sexual fidelity |
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heart ailments |
pike’s teeth |
snakebite |
ingested - heart of snake |
heartburn |
performed- hold a metal bolt in your mouth |
heart |
performed - elaborate ritual |
heartburn |
ingested - elder bark |
bedwetting, enuresis |
performed - elaborate ceremony |
heart, pounding |
current burnt chicken feathers |
birth portents |
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death, funeral, conduct of survivors |
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love, marriage, fidelity |
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conjury |
performed- burn hoecakes containing salt and chamber lye |
heart |
inhaled - smoke from burned winding sheet |
heartburn |
ingested - shot |
heart ailments |
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conjury, sexual fidelity |
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health, promoters |
performed - jump over log in hearth while still it is smoking after Christmas eve supper |
injuries |
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impotency |
applied - oil from sanctuary lamp which burns in front of the reserved Holy Sacrament |
burns |
applied - plaster made of heart leaves and hog’s hair burned to a cinder, mixed with tallow or grease |
heartburn |
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conjury, heartburn |
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cholera |
performed--keep a fire always burning on the hearth |
epilepsy |
ingested - ashes of burnt crayfish heart |
fever |
performed - write name with chalk on a piece of peet [peat?] and put this on the fire of a hearth |
heartburn |
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healer traditions |
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poisons |
performed - sucking |
bladder infections |
cranberry juice |
scalds, burns |
performed - A verbal charm, while passing bramble leaves over scald.. |
heartburn |
ingested - elaborate |
heartburn |
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epilepsy |
applied - linen yarn; performed - burn hair clippings and nails and pour into holes under harrowpin |
heart |
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burns |
applied - winter sage, saliva. performed - bowed in to hands 4 times so the good of his heart wound enter the medicine. |
stomach |
applied - Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic with water |
conjury, heart |
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burns |
applied - burned heart leaves mixed with homemade lard |
consumption |
performed - burn the lungs, heart & liver of the last deceased in the family who have died of consumption |
heart, cancer |
ingested - hair of inflicted and sheep wool burned |
birthmarks, prenatal influences, cat |
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