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For a significant portion of the African American population, the use of home remedies and herbs was an important component of health care when they had no health insurance and/or no funds and were unable to regularly visit conventional health care practitioners. African American Home Remedies utilizes information obtained from two studies conducted in affiliation with the University of Michigan to demonstrate the use of over one hundred home remedies and herbs and their relation to socio-demographic characteristics in the African American community. Information includes what the respondents used the remedies to treat, what the remedies have been used to treat in the past, clinical or scientific support for use of the remedies, and precautions and toxicities, if any, associated with use of the remedies.
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I was born in Canton MS. I was raised in the cotton fields of central Mississippi as the twelfth of thirteen children in a family with absolutely no financial resources. I enlisted in the US Air Force and was honorably discharged after completion of a four-year obligation and migrated to San Francisco, CA. I completed the Doctor of Pharmacy program at University of California School of Pharmacy and taught on their Clinical faculty for one year. I then transferred to the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and taught for twenty years. Subsequently I transferred to Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy as Ass0ciate Dean and Director of Research for two years. I returned to the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy for another ten years and retired in 2003. While at Michigan I coauthored or contributed to three books. I coauthored "Home Remedies and The Black Elderly in 1984. I contributed to "Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs (Volume 1) " in 1992. I also coauthored "African American Home Remedies-A Practical Guide With Usage and Application Data" in 2014. Approximately fifty percent of the home remedies and herbs discussed in the book were used on me when I was a child growing up in Canton, MS.
