Folk medicine, in other words known as ‘traditional medicine’, is medicinal cures that were commonly approached and practiced before scientific medicine came into being. Today, even though scientific medicine has back-end proof to support it, many areas especially the tribal population still rely on folk medicine.
Folk medicine can have minor to severe negative consequences and the World Health Organization advises using proper pharmaceutical medicine instead, but folk medicine remains relied on by many. It mainly includes herbal remedies that offer a more natural alternative. Moreover, people tend to go for folk medicine when scientific medicine provides no cure to their diseases, and sometimes the herbal remedies they use alternatively even work. For this reason, more than half the population of Asian and African regions still rely on traditional medicine.
This collection collects data from various sources to answer the most famous topics; the historical significance of folk medicine, the present use of it, and why it tends to work when pharmaceutical drugs don’t in some cases. Moreover, it also provides information on the ingredients or substances that you yourself can use as treatments and can prove to be beneficial in life-threatening situations.
Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture by William Black 1883
Potter's Cyclopedia of botanical drugs and preparations by RC Wren 1900
The Book of Herbs by Rosalind Northcote 1903
Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians by Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1917)
Profitable Herb Growing and collecting by Ada Teetgen 1916
Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Burfield Hazzard 1908 (this book attracted many to her retreat in Washington state, where her patients were starved, and then subsequently died. Linda Hazzard is the subject of many true crime books, including _Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen_.)
Gunn's household physician, or, Home book of health forming a complete household guide presenting a manual for nursing the sick and describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants by John Gunn 1901
Zone Therapy - Relieving pain at home by Wm Fitzgerald 1919
Gems of Wisdom: a collection of useful information for everyday life 1888
The Complete Herbalist, or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies describing the great curative properties found in the herbal kingdom by Oliver P Brown 1897 ("The examples of extreme longevity are too numerous to be detailed even in a book of many passes, but a few examples may be cited on this point. Haller, the celebrated English physician, during his time, collected more than one thousand cases of persons in Europe, who attained the ages from one hundred to one hundred and seventy years. In Baker's "Curse of England," we find a list of one hundred individuals whose ages ranged from ninety-five to three hundred and seventy!"
C. E. Hobbs Botanical hand-book of common local, English, botanical and pharmacopial names arranged in alphabetical order, of most of the crude vegetable drugs, etc., in common use. Especially designed as a reference book for druggists and apothecaries by 1876
History of medicine from its origin to the nineteenth century with an appendix, containing a philosophical and historical review of medicine to the present time by PV Renouard 1856
The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and, other essays by Roswell Park 1912
The Mysteries of Medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An expose´ of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries by AD Crabtre 1874
Observations relative to the use of Belladonna, in painful disorders of the Head and Face By John Bailey 1818
Specific Medication and Specific Medicines by John M Scudder 1870
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants by Arthur Robert Harding 1908
Devils, drugs, and doctors, the story of the science of healing from medicine men to doctor by Howard Haggard 1913
The Story of Drugs by Henry Fuller 1922
Health and how to get it by Charles Lee Bryson 1912
The Cure of imperfect sight by treatment without glasses by William Bates 1920 (The Bates method is an alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates attributed nearly all sight problems to habitual strain of the eyes, and felt that glasses were harmful and never necessary.)
Old-time makers of medicine; the story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the middle ages by James Walsh 1911
The Popes and Science by James Walsh 1915
How Nature Cures by E Densmore 1892
Good health, how to get it and how to keep it by Alvah Doty 1917
Hypnotism and its application to Practical Medicine by Otto Wetterstrand 1897
Paracelsus of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature - Of the spirits of the planets, of occult philosophy, The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases 1656
Massage and the original Swedish movements by KW Ostrum 1915
An illustrated sketch of the Movement-cure by GH Taylor 1866
A Manual of instruction for giving Swedish movement and massage by Hartvig Nissen 1889
Rev. John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies - An easy and natural method of curing most diseases 1880
Surgical Methods among Savage Races by Edwin Lee Morgan 1904
On Superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery by Thomas Pettigrew 1844
The Old Vegetable Neurotics: Hemlock, Opium, Belladonna and Nenbane; their Physiological action and therapeutical use by John Harley 1869
The Materia Medica of the Hindus by Udoy Dutt 1877
Auto-Suggestion - what it is and how to use it for health, happiness and success by Herbert Parkyn 1906
The Cottage Physician - best known methods of treatment in all diseases, accidents and emergencies of the home by Thomas Faulkner 1892
A Collection of above 300 Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery by Mary Kettilby 1734
Wild medicinal plants of the United States by Alice Henkel 1906
Mother's Remedies - over 1000 tried and tested remedies from mothers of the United States and Canada 1916 by TJ Ritter *
Superstition in medicine by Hugo Magnus 1905
The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the sky in arresting disease and in restoring health in acute and chronic disorders to human and domestic animals by Gen. Pleasonton 1877 (early chromotherapy - book about how the color blue can improve the growth of crops and livestock and can help heal diseases in humans)
Bygone Beliefs being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by H. Stanley Redgrove 1920
A Few Practical Observations on the Art of Cupping by Joseph Staples 1835
Medicinal Herbs and Poisonous Plants by David Ellis 1918
A Handbook of Therapeutics By Sydney Ringer 1869
Technic and practice of Chiropractic by Joy Loban 1915
Divine hygiene - Sanitary science and sanitarians of the sacred scriptures and mosaic code, Volume 1 by Alexander Rattray 1903
Divine hygiene - Sanitary science and sanitarians of the sacred scriptures and mosaic code, Volume 2 by Alexander Rattray 1903
The force of mind - The mental factor in medicine by Arthur Schofield 1908
A Text book on Chiropractic Physiology by Harry Edwin Vedder 1916
A text-book of practical therapeutics by HA Hare 1890
Bible Hygiene 1879
Primitive Physick - An easy and natural method of curing most diseases by John Wesley 1764
The Diseases of the Bible by Ridon Bennett 1891
Treatise on Direct Medical Administration and Renovation Through Acupuncturation by AR Brown 1867
A Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Andrew 1842
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine and health adviser by Henry McMurtrie 1900
The Book of Health - a compendium of domestic medicine, deduced from the experience of the most eminent modern practitioners, entirely divested of technicalities and rendered familiar to the general reader 1830
The New Illustrated Household Book of Medicine by William Kennedy 1891
Household Hand-book of Medicine by Henry S Truman 1893
The Pioneers of Homeopathy by Thomas Bradford 1897
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms by William Murrill 1916
Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and what to avoid by MC Cooke 1894
On Snake-bites and their Antidotes 1866
Facts and fancies in health foods by Axel Gibson 19821
Myths in Medicine and Old-time Doctors by Alfred Garratt 1864
Coca and Cocaine, their history, medical and economic uses, and medicinal preparations by William Martindale 1894
A Philosophical essay on Credulity and Superstition by Rufus Blakeman 1849
Culpeper's complete herbal by Nicholas Culpeper 1880 (Nicholas Culpeper (1616 – 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs.)
The Botanic Physician - Family medical adviser by JE Carter 1837
A Scripture herbal by Maria Callcott 1842
The Canadian Herbal, or botanic family physician, comprising a variety of the Indian remedies and medicinal plants of this country, and adapted to various forms of disease by S Stewart 1851
On diagnosis by means of biodynamics - spinal reflexology - zone therapy by George Starr White 1916
Hypnotism, Mesmerism and the New Witchcraft by Ernest Hart 1896
The Remedial uses of Hypnotism by FH Gerrish 1892
An Introduction to the History of Medicine with Medical chronology by Fielding H Garrison 1921
The Modern Practice of Physic by Robert Thomas 1815
The Sanitary Code of the Pentateuch by CGK Gillespie 1894
Medica Sacra - Short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings by Thomas Shapter 1834
History of the Jewish physicians by E Carmoly 1845
The Mineralogy and botany of the Bible by Ernst Rosenmüller 1840
Scripture Natural History 1845
Primitive Psycho-therapy and Quackery by Robert Lawrence 1910
Medical History from the earliest times, a popular history of the healing art by Edward Withington 1894
The Great American Fraud - Articles on the nostrum evil and quacks by Samuel Adams 1906
Nostrums and Quackery 1911
Meals medicinal, curative foods from the cook in place of drugs from the chemist by William Fernie 1905
Pharmacographia - a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin by F Fluckiger 1879
Manual of Magnetic Healing To which is Added an Appendix on Vegetarianism by Daniel W Hull 1906
Neuropathy - The true principles of the art of healing the sick being an explanation of the action of galvanism, electricity, and magnetism, in the cure of disease by F Hollick 1847
The Only Osteopractic Method of Treating Diseases at home by Charles Lewis 1902
Modern physio-therapy - a system of drugless therapeutic methods by Otto Juettner 1913
A Thousand health questions answered by John Harvey Kellogg 1917
A Treatise on Hydrophobia by Henry Hughes 1837
Foods and their adulteration by Harvey Wiley 1917
Healthy homes and foods for the working classes by Victor Vaughan 1886
Weeds used in medicine by Alice Henkel 1917
Occult Science in Medicine by Franz Hartmann 1893
The Principles of Occult healing by Mary Weeks Burnett 1916
Prayer and the healing of disease by WS Bryan 1896
Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics, Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions, and folk-lore of the plant kingdom by Richard Folkard 1892
Folk medicine can have minor to severe negative consequences and the World Health Organization advises using proper pharmaceutical medicine instead, but folk medicine remains relied on by many. It mainly includes herbal remedies that offer a more natural alternative. Moreover, people tend to go for folk medicine when scientific medicine provides no cure to their diseases, and sometimes the herbal remedies they use alternatively even work. For this reason, more than half the population of Asian and African regions still rely on traditional medicine.
This collection collects data from various sources to answer the most famous topics; the historical significance of folk medicine, the present use of it, and why it tends to work when pharmaceutical drugs don’t in some cases. Moreover, it also provides information on the ingredients or substances that you yourself can use as treatments and can prove to be beneficial in life-threatening situations.
Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture by William Black 1883
Potter's Cyclopedia of botanical drugs and preparations by RC Wren 1900
The Book of Herbs by Rosalind Northcote 1903
Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians by Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1917)
Profitable Herb Growing and collecting by Ada Teetgen 1916
Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Burfield Hazzard 1908 (this book attracted many to her retreat in Washington state, where her patients were starved, and then subsequently died. Linda Hazzard is the subject of many true crime books, including _Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen_.)
Gunn's household physician, or, Home book of health forming a complete household guide presenting a manual for nursing the sick and describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants by John Gunn 1901
Zone Therapy - Relieving pain at home by Wm Fitzgerald 1919
Gems of Wisdom: a collection of useful information for everyday life 1888
The Complete Herbalist, or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies describing the great curative properties found in the herbal kingdom by Oliver P Brown 1897 ("The examples of extreme longevity are too numerous to be detailed even in a book of many passes, but a few examples may be cited on this point. Haller, the celebrated English physician, during his time, collected more than one thousand cases of persons in Europe, who attained the ages from one hundred to one hundred and seventy years. In Baker's "Curse of England," we find a list of one hundred individuals whose ages ranged from ninety-five to three hundred and seventy!"
C. E. Hobbs Botanical hand-book of common local, English, botanical and pharmacopial names arranged in alphabetical order, of most of the crude vegetable drugs, etc., in common use. Especially designed as a reference book for druggists and apothecaries by 1876
History of medicine from its origin to the nineteenth century with an appendix, containing a philosophical and historical review of medicine to the present time by PV Renouard 1856
The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and, other essays by Roswell Park 1912
The Mysteries of Medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An expose´ of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries by AD Crabtre 1874
Observations relative to the use of Belladonna, in painful disorders of the Head and Face By John Bailey 1818
Specific Medication and Specific Medicines by John M Scudder 1870
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants by Arthur Robert Harding 1908
Devils, drugs, and doctors, the story of the science of healing from medicine men to doctor by Howard Haggard 1913
The Story of Drugs by Henry Fuller 1922
Health and how to get it by Charles Lee Bryson 1912
The Cure of imperfect sight by treatment without glasses by William Bates 1920 (The Bates method is an alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates attributed nearly all sight problems to habitual strain of the eyes, and felt that glasses were harmful and never necessary.)
Old-time makers of medicine; the story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the middle ages by James Walsh 1911
The Popes and Science by James Walsh 1915
How Nature Cures by E Densmore 1892
Good health, how to get it and how to keep it by Alvah Doty 1917
Hypnotism and its application to Practical Medicine by Otto Wetterstrand 1897
Paracelsus of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature - Of the spirits of the planets, of occult philosophy, The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases 1656
Massage and the original Swedish movements by KW Ostrum 1915
An illustrated sketch of the Movement-cure by GH Taylor 1866
A Manual of instruction for giving Swedish movement and massage by Hartvig Nissen 1889
Rev. John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies - An easy and natural method of curing most diseases 1880
Surgical Methods among Savage Races by Edwin Lee Morgan 1904
On Superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery by Thomas Pettigrew 1844
The Old Vegetable Neurotics: Hemlock, Opium, Belladonna and Nenbane; their Physiological action and therapeutical use by John Harley 1869
The Materia Medica of the Hindus by Udoy Dutt 1877
Auto-Suggestion - what it is and how to use it for health, happiness and success by Herbert Parkyn 1906
The Cottage Physician - best known methods of treatment in all diseases, accidents and emergencies of the home by Thomas Faulkner 1892
A Collection of above 300 Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery by Mary Kettilby 1734
Wild medicinal plants of the United States by Alice Henkel 1906
Mother's Remedies - over 1000 tried and tested remedies from mothers of the United States and Canada 1916 by TJ Ritter *
Superstition in medicine by Hugo Magnus 1905
The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the sky in arresting disease and in restoring health in acute and chronic disorders to human and domestic animals by Gen. Pleasonton 1877 (early chromotherapy - book about how the color blue can improve the growth of crops and livestock and can help heal diseases in humans)
Bygone Beliefs being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by H. Stanley Redgrove 1920
A Few Practical Observations on the Art of Cupping by Joseph Staples 1835
Medicinal Herbs and Poisonous Plants by David Ellis 1918
A Handbook of Therapeutics By Sydney Ringer 1869
Technic and practice of Chiropractic by Joy Loban 1915
Divine hygiene - Sanitary science and sanitarians of the sacred scriptures and mosaic code, Volume 1 by Alexander Rattray 1903
Divine hygiene - Sanitary science and sanitarians of the sacred scriptures and mosaic code, Volume 2 by Alexander Rattray 1903
The force of mind - The mental factor in medicine by Arthur Schofield 1908
A Text book on Chiropractic Physiology by Harry Edwin Vedder 1916
A text-book of practical therapeutics by HA Hare 1890
Bible Hygiene 1879
Primitive Physick - An easy and natural method of curing most diseases by John Wesley 1764
The Diseases of the Bible by Ridon Bennett 1891
Treatise on Direct Medical Administration and Renovation Through Acupuncturation by AR Brown 1867
A Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Andrew 1842
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine and health adviser by Henry McMurtrie 1900
The Book of Health - a compendium of domestic medicine, deduced from the experience of the most eminent modern practitioners, entirely divested of technicalities and rendered familiar to the general reader 1830
The New Illustrated Household Book of Medicine by William Kennedy 1891
Household Hand-book of Medicine by Henry S Truman 1893
The Pioneers of Homeopathy by Thomas Bradford 1897
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms by William Murrill 1916
Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and what to avoid by MC Cooke 1894
On Snake-bites and their Antidotes 1866
Facts and fancies in health foods by Axel Gibson 19821
Myths in Medicine and Old-time Doctors by Alfred Garratt 1864
Coca and Cocaine, their history, medical and economic uses, and medicinal preparations by William Martindale 1894
A Philosophical essay on Credulity and Superstition by Rufus Blakeman 1849
Culpeper's complete herbal by Nicholas Culpeper 1880 (Nicholas Culpeper (1616 – 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs.)
The Botanic Physician - Family medical adviser by JE Carter 1837
A Scripture herbal by Maria Callcott 1842
The Canadian Herbal, or botanic family physician, comprising a variety of the Indian remedies and medicinal plants of this country, and adapted to various forms of disease by S Stewart 1851
On diagnosis by means of biodynamics - spinal reflexology - zone therapy by George Starr White 1916
Hypnotism, Mesmerism and the New Witchcraft by Ernest Hart 1896
The Remedial uses of Hypnotism by FH Gerrish 1892
An Introduction to the History of Medicine with Medical chronology by Fielding H Garrison 1921
The Modern Practice of Physic by Robert Thomas 1815
The Sanitary Code of the Pentateuch by CGK Gillespie 1894
Medica Sacra - Short expositions of the more important diseases mentioned in the sacred writings by Thomas Shapter 1834
History of the Jewish physicians by E Carmoly 1845
The Mineralogy and botany of the Bible by Ernst Rosenmüller 1840
Scripture Natural History 1845
Primitive Psycho-therapy and Quackery by Robert Lawrence 1910
Medical History from the earliest times, a popular history of the healing art by Edward Withington 1894
The Great American Fraud - Articles on the nostrum evil and quacks by Samuel Adams 1906
Nostrums and Quackery 1911
Meals medicinal, curative foods from the cook in place of drugs from the chemist by William Fernie 1905
Pharmacographia - a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin by F Fluckiger 1879
Manual of Magnetic Healing To which is Added an Appendix on Vegetarianism by Daniel W Hull 1906
Neuropathy - The true principles of the art of healing the sick being an explanation of the action of galvanism, electricity, and magnetism, in the cure of disease by F Hollick 1847
The Only Osteopractic Method of Treating Diseases at home by Charles Lewis 1902
Modern physio-therapy - a system of drugless therapeutic methods by Otto Juettner 1913
A Thousand health questions answered by John Harvey Kellogg 1917
A Treatise on Hydrophobia by Henry Hughes 1837
Foods and their adulteration by Harvey Wiley 1917
Healthy homes and foods for the working classes by Victor Vaughan 1886
Weeds used in medicine by Alice Henkel 1917
Occult Science in Medicine by Franz Hartmann 1893
The Principles of Occult healing by Mary Weeks Burnett 1916
Prayer and the healing of disease by WS Bryan 1896
Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics, Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions, and folk-lore of the plant kingdom by Richard Folkard 1892