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The Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine Program Print E-mail
This program is a one year certificate program which focuses on the use of local plants for good health. Classes are held as three-day intensives each season or four times a year. Please contact the school or check the website calendar for the schedule. This class is geared for those wishing to reconnect with the Earth and the old ways our ancestors used in their daily lives.

Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicines developed from a combination of European, Native American, African and Scottish and Irish influences. At the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the South had already been settled 100 years by the Spanish and French. With them, came their European system of medicine based upon the works of Galen and Hippocrates. They also brought their African or Moorish slaves who wasted no time in escaping and moving in with the local Native population. It is from the combination of all these groups, that Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine developed. 

In application the classes will cover: 

• Practices and Principles of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine;

• The Blood Constitutional System: high, low, thick, thin, hot, cold, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, etc.;

• Civil War herbal medicine;

• Depression era herbal and folk healing practices;

• Reading the Signs to understand health tendencies;

• Planting, gathering, and harvesting by the Signs;

• Reading weather signs;

• Reading tree and other nature signs;

• Dousing;

• The Doctrine of Signatures;

• The Law of Contraries;

• The Law of Similiars;

• Vitalism;

• Folk healing traditions: Folk medicine, Hoodo, Root Doctoring, and local Native American traditions;

• And other Folk wisdom for the ages.

    
 
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