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GOURD - GRAPEVINE - SUNFLOWER

Volume 4, entries 6820. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → CURES FOR AND PROTECTION AGAINST AILMENT AND DISEASE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 6820

Volume 4 · printed page 3127 · Sumter, S. Car.

Take de grapevine an' de gourd vine an' dese things dey call sunflow- ahs, an' yo' kin make a tea wi' dat. An' dat is very good tuh take fo' de blood if anyone go tuh work an' work on yore blood agains' chuh. Well, yo' kin go tuh work an' work wit dat, an' nobody kin nevah hurt chew. A gourd vine is a very simple medicine tuh take against poison any time. If anybody take it, dey nevah git poisoned.

(Well, what would they take from the gourd vine?)

Jis' de leaves, eithah de vine.

Related subjects: Blood, Gourd, Leaves, Poison, Protection, Sunflower, Tea

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