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SNAKESHED POWDER - WHOOPING COUGH
Volume 4, entries 6952. 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 6952
(How would they do that?)
Take an' mash it up. [What? See later.] Yo' use dat an' make a tea out of it fo' whooping cough. Dries it up an' use it as a powder [for making a tea]. [A penciled note of mine identifies the thing mashed up as a snakeshed. Two other notes of mine say do not use unless a parallel; infor- mant is fair. The INDEX (vol.5) may give us another example, but meanwhile Hoo- doo has a similar cure in which snakeshed powder cures bad nerves (No.1564, P.494). Also suggestive is another rite of mine collected years ago: A person sill lose his shingles [[or herpes]], if he kills a snake and wraps it about them. Sometimes the snake is skinned so that the inside of the skin may be applied
(FACI, 2nd ed., No.5400, p.240).]