BOTANY, MEDICAL

The lost discovery of corporal Antonio Luis: a desert cure for scurvy

Author

R.L.Ives

Article Date

Summer 1970

Article Abstract

Tunas and pitahayas were used

Journal Title

J Ariz Hist

The desert is an Indian drugstore

Author

J. Laudermilk

Article Date

April 1944

Article Abstract

Reprinted in Desert 25: 11-13+ O 1962

Journal Title

Desert

Some plant materials used medicinally and otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

Author

G. M. Hocking

Article Date

May-June 1956

Journal Title

El Palacio

A Mexcian curandera in Arizona

Author

M. Zavada

Article Date

1990

Article Abstract

A Mexican-born curandera reveals the most commonly used herbal treatments. The need for research into the healing properties of many plants is emphasized, and the methodology of provincial medicine is likewise in need of study.

Journal Title

Desert Plants

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