Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

by Patrisia Gonzales and Longus

Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529566
• ISBN13: 9780816529568
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"