the boom days of coal

An intergenerational oral history project documenting life in the coal camps

of the Upper Kanawha Valley, West Virginia
 

 

 

 

                          

The Boom Days of Coal Volume II: Folk Medicine of the Upper Kanawha Valley

 

 

VIDEO CLIPS

 

Ground Ivy and Peach Tree Leaves

Loretta Watkins shows and tells Rachel about these two herbal remedies.

Ground ivy is used to help colic and belly aches in babies, and peach leaves are used to help heal wounds.

 

 

Blood Root

Robert Darby shows Rachel where Blood Root gets its name.

 

 

Sweet Anis

Robert Darby shows Rachel how to dig sweet anis and what how it can be used.

 

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