ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Josephine Peters's non-herbal cures for some diseases. Josephine says that to relieve poison oak rash, add oatmeal to bath water or cook and press on face and to relieve poison oak rash, swim in ocean water. Rub olive oil on skin diseases, in particular psoriasis. Rub it, as well, for relief of arthritis. It's useful for healing radiation burns. In the latter case, carefully apply it to the unburned skin along the edge of the raw area. Eat the clay to cleanse pinworms from the intestinal tract. Apply Redmond clay topically on insect bites and rashes. Give serpentine mud to patients with internal cancers and HIV/AIDS: A tablespoon of mud a day has enough arsenic in it to cure them. It is essential for anyone working in ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, environmental anthropology, Native American studies, and Western and California culture and history.
