Earth and Spirit: Medicinal Plants and Healing Lore from Puerto Rico Alana Fairchild "Buy something silly and wear

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Earth and Spirit: Medicinal Plants and Healing Lore from Puerto Rico Alana Fairchild "Buy something silly and wearAn inspiring work of oral history, Earth and Spirit explores and celebrates Puerto Rico's tradition of botanical medicine as it was practiced up to the 1980s. This lively and deeply personal glimpse of Caribbean healing presents the voices of dozens of people who knew, loved and worked with medicinal plants and island earth lore. Ten interviews feature traditional curanderos, a granny midwife, spiritual healers, natural beauticians and others.