Folk Medicine

“Conocimientos de Medicina Popular en ancianos de una población rural: Guadiana del Caudillo (Badajoz)”.

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Autores: Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón, Peral Pacheco, Diego; Vázquez Pardo, Francisco María y  Martín Jiménez, Pedro.

Revista: Revista de Estudios Extremeños. Tomo LXI. Nº I (Enero-Abril 2005). Edita: Diputación provincial de Badajoz. Badajoz. ISSN 0210-2854. Número de páginas: 23 (pp. 79-101).

The Material Culture of Household Apotropaia in the Eastern United States

by M. Chris Manning

Paper and accompanying PowerPoint presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, January 5, 2012. Part of the symposium, "Manifestations of Magic: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Magic and Folk Belief."

Paper Abstract:
Significant research on apotropaic concealments has been conducted by scholars in Europe and... more Paper Abstract:
Significant research on apotropaic concealments has been conducted by scholars in Europe and Great Britain, as well as in Australia. Similar research in colonial and post-colonial contexts in the United States, however, is still in its infancy. This paper examines the material culture of magic and folk belief in the eastern United States focusing on magical apotropaia associated with domestic and public structures. In particular, it explores the European origins of these practices, their transformation and reinterpretation in the United States and their continuation into the twentieth century.

Symposium Abstract:
Although it has been twenty-five years since British archaeologist Ralph Merrifield published his seminal work, The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, the archaeological study of magic in European contexts is still a relatively new field. Bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, this session will explore the material culture of magic and folk belief, both above and below ground. Emphasis is on the manifestation of magical traditions in Europe as well in various colonial and post-colonial contexts in Australia and North America, interaction with non-Western magico-religious traditions, and the ways in which archaeologists and scholars in related disciplines engage and interpret material evidence of magical belief and practice.

“¿Qué saben los alumnos de primero de la Facultad de Medicina de Extremadura a cerca de la Medicina Popular? Cursos 2002-03; 2003-04.

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Autores: Figuero Maynar, María Jesús; Lamas García, María y Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón.

Revista: Revista de Estudios Extremeños. Tomo LXI. Nº I (Enero-Abril 2005). Edita: Diputación provincial de Badajoz. Badajoz. ISSN 0210-2854. Número de páginas: 27 (pp. 223-249).

Prácticas mágicas en la medicina popular de un pueblo extremeño de colonización

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Gazeta de Antropología
Nº 24/2 - 2008

The magical practices in folk medicine in a colonization village of Extremadura, Spain

Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón
Peral Pacheco, Diego
Carrasco Ramos, María Consuelo

The knowledge of magical practices in the folk medicine of Guadiana del Caudillo (Badajoz) from its organization as... more The knowledge of magical practices in the folk medicine of Guadiana del Caudillo (Badajoz) from its organization as frontier town of colonization contributes a rich information about itself. In this way, we found that these practices comprise of the cultural heritage of the town and that they have not been moved, nor suppressed until now. This gives an idea of the importance of these beliefs in order to understand the subject with which we interacted as a doctor, anthropologist, etc. Thus we found the evil eye, culebro, shyness, and other practices more difficult to classify and for that reason less of interest (milk of woman, saliva, menstrual blood). The magical practices may undergo transformations, but they will always comprise part of human life.

Remedios basados en plantas usadas en la Medicina Popular guadianera: “el aceite de árnica”.

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Revista: Revista de Estudios Extremeños. Tomo LXIII. Nº extraordinario 2007. Edita: Diputación provincial de Badajoz. Badajoz. ISSN 0210-2854. Número de páginas: 10 (pp. 307-316).

Autores: Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón; Peral Pacheco, Diego; Carrasco Ramos, María Consuelo y Plaza Gragera, Josefa.

La Medicina Popular en la Ciudad de Badajoz

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Revista de Estudios Extremeños, 2009, Tomo LXV, N.º III

Autores: Peral Pacheco, Diego, Martín Alvarado, Miguel Ángel, Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón; Altimiras Roset, Jacint, Roura Poch, Pere.

La transmisión de la Medicina Popular en la Baja Extremadura

by José Ramón Vallejo Villalobos

Autores: Altimiras Roset, Jacint; Peral Pacheco, Diego; Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón; Martín Alvarado, Miguel Ángel;... more Autores: Altimiras Roset, Jacint; Peral Pacheco, Diego; Vallejo Villalobos, José Ramón; Martín Alvarado, Miguel Ángel; Roura Poch, Pere.

Revista: Revista de Estudios Extremeños. Tomo 65, nº 3. Edita: Diputación provincial de Badajoz. Badajoz. ISSN 0210-2854.

Les tatouages d'Ötzi et la petite chirurgie traditionnelle

by Luc Renaut

L’Anthropologie (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris), 108, 2004, pp. 69-105.

English abstract : please follow the HALSHS link. English abstract : please follow the HALSHS link.

Herbal mixtures in the traditional medicine of Eastern Cuba

by Gabriele Volpato

Folk Botany of an obnoxious weed Lantana sps in Terai belt of Northeastern Utter Pradesh

by Akhilesh Kumar

Co-authored by D D Tewari and Sachin Tripathi,Vegetos 16 :21-26 (2003)

Medicinal and Healing Properties of Lotus and Water Lily Plants

by David L. Spess

Medicinal and Healing Properties of Lotus and Water Lily Plants by David L. Spess

This article is to be published soon. I will give the link to the journal as soon as it is published.

Nelumbo and Nymphaea species of plants have long been known in folk medicine for their important longevity promoting... more Nelumbo and Nymphaea species of plants have long been known in folk medicine for their important longevity promoting powers, their ability to increase mental faculties, their stimulating effects, as well as their strength promoting and rejuvenative effects for the weak and ill. They are also known for their tonic effects in producing an elevated state of well being. They are credited with the healing and cure of numerous specific diseases. In addition, these plants are known in traditional folk medicine for important mental health effects through various psychoactive alkaloids they contain. These mental effects also include the experience of divine ecstatic states upon the consumer. In this paper I will be discussing the use of Nelumbo and Nymphaea species found in East Indian and Egyptian medicine.

Lee-Treweek G. 2010. "Born to it and then pushed out of it": folk healers in the new medical marketplace

by Geraldine Lee-Treweek

in: S. Maclean and R. Moore (eds) The Root, The Wand and The Crystal: folk healing and change in the UK. London: Berghahn.

Medical Tourism in the Arkansas Ozarks: Alternative Health and Healing in the Backcountry

by Justin Nolan

Buried Bottles: Witchcraft and Sympathetic Magic

by M. Chris Manning

Poster presented at the Ball State University Anthropology Student Conference, Muncie, Indiana, April 21, 2011.

This poster examines the well-documented folk practice of constructing and deploying so-called ‘witch bottles’ to... more This poster examines the well-documented folk practice of constructing and deploying so-called ‘witch bottles’ to counter a witch’s spell. Witch bottles can be identified in the archaeological record by their contents—usually a combination of pins and nails, scraps of felt or leather, hair and fingernail clippings, and human urine—as well as their frequently inverted position and location near hearths and doorways. The practice appears to have originated in Britain in the early fourteenth century and was introduced to this country in the seventeenth century by English colonists. While hundreds of examples have been documented in Britain and Europe, only a handful are known in the United States. This poster examines the known American cases, compares and contrasts them to witch bottles in Europe, and discusses evidence which suggests the practice continued into the twentieth century as part of a syncretic system of magical belief.