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books and, 33
botanical healing, 39
commercial medicines, 39
high blood, 35
humoral theory, 36
Indigenous people and, 30–32
landscape and, 28–29
low blood, 35
magical remedies, 37
miasmic theory, 36–37
naturalistic theory, 34
personalistic theory, 34
red color and, 37
roots, 29–33, 39
sympathetic magic, 37
thick blood, 35
thin blood, 35
tonics, 40–47
transference magic, 37
miasmic theory, 36–37
moon
love charms and, 122, 124
harvesting and, 53, 66
luck and, 150, 151
new moon, 149–150
planting and, 143–147
weather signs, 138, 139, 141, 142
N
numbers, 37, 101
P
planting
dowsing and, 17
history of, 143
moon and, 145–146
timing, 146–147
plants
alehoof, 41
American mandrake, 64–66
apple bark (Malus spp.), 42
asafoetida, 51, 55, 75
