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Breaking leaves / produced, directed, and filmed by Karen Kramer.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Haitian French Creole
- Subjects (All):
- Herbs--Therapeutic use--Haiti.
- Herbs.
- Social medicine--Haiti.
- Social medicine.
- Traditional medicine--Haiti.
- Traditional medicine.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (31 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2000.
- Language Note:
- In Haitian French Creole, subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- "In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves that they need for healing. We then follow them home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion."--Original container.
- Notes:
- Subtitle on original container: Herbal medicine in Haiti.
- OCLC:
- 747796415
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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