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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain John J. Ratey, MD See book keywords and concepts

I got a dramatic reminder of this about ten years ago on a trip to the San Carlos apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. As part of the tribe's effort to tackle its community's health issues, I was invited to talk about ADHD to doctors, medical staff, parents, and teachers. ADHD is a huge but largely undiagnosed issue for the reservation kids because the incidence of the disorder among Apaches seems to be much higher than for the general population.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell See book keywords and concepts

Don't look around," said the hero of the Jicarilla apache, Killer-of-Enemies; "Listen to what I say. The world is just as big as my body. The world is as large as my word. And the world is as large as my prayers. The sky is only as large as my words and prayers. The seasons are only as great as my body, my words, and my prayer. It is the same with the waters; my body, my words, my prayer are greater than the waters. "Whoever believes me, whoever listens to what I say, will have long life. One who doesn't listen, who thinks in some evil way, will have a short life.

See Morris Edward Opler, Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla apache Indians (Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, No. 31, 1938); and Leo Frobenius and Dousrlas C. Fox, African Genesis (New York, 1927), pp. 4Q-ko. even beaten into shape. The earth brings forth thoins and thistles; man eats, bread in the sweat of his brow. Two modes of myth therefore confront us. According to one, the demiurgic forces continue to operate of themselves; according to the other, they give up the initiative and even set themselves against the further progress of the cosmogonic round.

The wise realize, even within this womb, that they 130 Morris Edward Opler, Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla apache Indians (Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, Vol. XXXI, 1938), p. 110. 131 Compare supra, p. 1K2, note. have come from and are returning to the father; while the very wise know that she and he are in substance one. This is the meaning of those Tibetan images of the union of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with their own feminine aspects that have seemed so indecent to many Christian critics.

They see when we have nothing to protect us," declared an old apache storyteller, "and it is then that they reveal themselves and speak to us." 130 This is what the Buddhist calls "the sermon of the inanimate." A certain Hindu ascetic who lay down to rest beside the holy Ganges, placed his feet up on a Shiva-symbol (a "lingam," a combined phallus and vulva, symbolizing the union of the God with his Spouse). A passing priest observed the man reposing thus and rebuked him. "How can you dare to profane this symbol of God by resting your feet on it?" demanded the priest.

The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide Brigitte Mars, A.H.G. See book keywords and concepts

Edible Uses Osha leaves and root are edible and have a spicy, celery-like flavor. apache Indians traditionally boil the root with meat. Other Uses Osha was considered to be a sacred plant by many Native American peoples. Traditionally it is worn in a medicine pouch and around the ankle to ward off rattlesnakes. Flathead Indians would wash the roots in a mountain stream near where they had grown to help bring rain. The root can also be burned as incense for purification, and it has been used to increase psychic ability and enhance dreaming.

The name of its principle alkaloid, mescaline, comes from that of the Mescalero apache, from whose dwellings extraction samples were taken. Part Used Crown, consisting of disc-shaped buttons Physiological Effects Antibiotic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, bitter, cerebral stimulant, emetic, entheogen, hallucinogen, liver cleanser, lymphatic cleanser, nervous system stimulant Medicinal Uses With its antibiotic effects, peyote aids wound healing and prevents infection; indeed, it has been found to have activity against eighteen penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus.

Handbook of Medicinal Plants Amarjit S. Basra See book keywords and concepts

Yarrow is used by many neighbors of the Hopi: the apache, Navajo, Ute, Papago, and Paiute, and by the Zuni. I knew, for example, that the Zuni had a ceremonial society called the Yayat which, among other things, included dramatic conjuring with fire which members handled in many ways; one authority says they "juggled fire like confetti," and others say they ate it.20 But before they did, they washed themselves with the cooling juice of the chewed blossoms and roots of yarrow, Achillea millefolium, to protect themselves from burns. So, I approached officials of the Hopi tribe and asked about it.

Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health Joseph E. Mario See book keywords and concepts

Another strain has been found in the harvest mice in Orange County, Cal ifornia and apache County, Arizona, not yet linked with any deaths. Hepatitis-A.B.andC SEE alphabetically. JuninandGuaharito are among 50 viruses discovered in South America's Amazon region, among potentially hundreds more. fahrea Black Fever From Manaus, Brazil; starts with a fever, weakness, internal abdomen bleeding, then blood pours from the body and eyes; the liver disintegrates, and 9 out of 10 die. EassaFever Fromrodentscontaminatingfoodandhomeutensils; found in the blood and urine, can also be airborne.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs John Heinerman See book keywords and concepts

An apache Pinenut Eteauty Mask Back in the early 70s, I was introduced to a former runner-up in the Miss Arizona Beauty Pageant, who just happened to be apache by birth. Later I accompanied her and some others to her home, where we met her folks. The girl's mother, a full-blooded apache squaw herself, had one of the nicest complexions I had ever seen in a woman nearing the half-century mark of her life. After chatting with them awhile, I gathered up enough courage to ask her outright what she did to make her skin look so young and beautiful.

Remain this way for several hours or until the throbbing ceases. An apache Pinenut Eteauty Mask Back in the early 70s, I was introduced to a former runner-up in the Miss Arizona Beauty Pageant, who just happened to be apache by birth. Later I accompanied her and some others to her home, where we met her folks. The girl's mother, a full-blooded apache squaw herself, had one of the nicest complexions I had ever seen in a woman nearing the half-century mark of her life.

CounterThink roundup: fictional terrorism, body armor bills, and education (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I wonder, if an apache pilot gets shot down and killed, will the Pentagon bill his family for the helicopter? Does anyone else get the feeling that the events in this war have become increasingly ludicrous? Bush plans major education initiative President Bush wants to make the U.S. population more competitive in the global marketplace. That plan starts in the public schools, where Bush wants to spend money hiring as many as 30,000 math and science teachers. He also wants to train 70,000 new teachers to be experts in math, science, Chinese and Arabic. The idea, of course, is to make sure U.S.

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Dianne Onstad See book keywords and concepts

The Navajo took yellow ears, Sioux picked the white, Havasupai wanted the red, Ute selected the flint, apache chose the longest ears. My people picked up the last and smallest ear, the blue corn. This meant the Hopi would have a long-lasting but hard life." Another tale, much like that of the Greek Apollo and Daphne, tells of a brave who was so in love with a beautiful maiden that he slept outside her hut to offer her his protection. One night he found her walking in her sleep and followed her. Although she ran fast, he finally caught her, but it was not a young woman whom he embraced.

Dandelion greens were so highly prized by the apache Indians that they would spend days or weeks searching the surrounding countryside for them. marked taste that is both slightly sweet and bitter. Young roots are good chopped and added to salads, peeled and sauteed to be served as a tasty vegetable, or dried, roasted, and ground to be used as a caffeine-free coffee substitute. A kind of beer can be made from the leaves, and from the crushed flower heads a light golden dandelion wine is made that has a taste suggestive of sherry and a reputation as an excellent tonic for the blood.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications Christian Ratsch See book keywords and concepts

Ethnographic objects made with mescal beans have been documented for the following tribes: apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Black-foot, Caddo, Cheyenne, Coahuilteco, Comanche, Crow, Delaware, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kansa, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Mandan, Missouri, Ojibwa, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Pawnee, Ponca, Prairie Potawatomi, Pueblos, Sauk and Fox, Shawnee, Shoshone, northern Ute, Sioux, Tonkawa, Wichita, and Winnebago (Merrill 1977). Necklaces of mescal beans are still worn at peyote ceremonies today. The red-black seeds of Abrus precatorius L.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Geronimo (juh-ron-uh-moh) An apache leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A brave and unrelenting warrior, Geronimo was among the last to lead Native Americans against white settlers. He took to farming at the end of his life. GI Bill A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War ii. Benefits are invasion of Normandy on D-Day, and led in the overthrow of the Nazi government of Germany. He later organized the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West Margarita Artschwager Kay See book keywords and concepts

Daniel Moerman's two-volume index, Medicinal Plants of Native America (1986), outlines the plant use of the Navajo, apache, Hopi, Zuni, and Pima who live in Arizona and New Mexico but not that of the (sometimes related) Native Americans of the Mexican states. Michael Moore in Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West (1979) and Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West (1989) discusses many of the same plants that I deal with, but these books are directed to different readers: those who would actually collect, prepare, and use the plants for treating themselves.

Next came the speakers of Na-Dene languages, Athabascans represented by the Navajo and apache in our area. The last were Eskimo-Aleuts.2 These waves of prehistoric peoples likely brought either medicines made from plants or information about which plants were medicines, recognizing those that they had used for healing before coming to the new lands.3 In the millennia that followed, as immigrants pushed southward into new lands, they would have found new plants that could be used as medicines. Doubtless many plants were discovered independently in different places.

Shortly before the conquistadores arrived, Athabascan peoples (the Navajo and apache) came to the Southwest. They too may have recognized plants similar to those they used as medicines in the far north, and they may also have learned which plants were medicinals from trade and interaction, for today they use many of the same plants as their Mexican American neighbors. Why would different peoples throughout the world use the same plants, or plants that are closely related by genus or by family?

Indian and later mestizo peoples living in this area but rarely include the Navajo and apache, who entered Arizona and New Mexico only shortly before Columbus, because these peoples employ many plants that are used by Athabascans much farther north (Hrdlicka 1908). Pueblo peoples are also touched only briefly because their pharmacopoeias overlap with those of peoples living in similar environments more direcdy within the study area.

The Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni all use Datura species. The apache used the roots for chest trouble. Today, Mexican Americans avoid the use of toloache, its reputation as a poison having spread. Periodically there are reported episodes of teenaged boys, experimenting with the effects, becoming temporarily blinded. Using jimson-weed as a hallucinogen is a major fad among teenagers across the United States today—a very dangerous practice because the dosage needed to produce hallucinations is very close to the lethal dose. Phytochemistry.

The root of xomcahoij is cooked in ashes to be eaten for diarrhea. The apache treated sore eyes by throwing the pith of O. bigelovii "on live coals and the smoke is allowed to go into the open eyes" (Hrdlicka 1908:234). The most common preparation for diarrhea taken by the Paipai is a tea made from the root combined with an Eriogonum. This combats diarrhea by acting as a purge. Mexican Americans in Arizona have used dry cholla stems to cast fractures. In Sonora, Mexico, they use the cholla root for kidney symptoms. Phytochemistry. According to napralert, O.fulgida and O.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Geronimo was an apache. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country Words from the inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy, delivered in 1961. Bakke decision (BAK-ee) An important ruling on affirmative action given by the Supreme Court in 1978. Allan Bakke, a white man, was denied admission to a medical school that had admitted black candidates with weaker academic credentials. Bakke contended that he was a victim of racial discrimination.

Geronimo (juh-RON-uh-moh) An apache leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A capable warrior, Geronimo was among the last to lead Native Americans against white settlers. He took to farming at the end of his life. GI Bill A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits fot people who had served in the armed forces in World War ii. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces. GI Joe A nickname for United States soldiers, particularly during World War ii.

The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America Francois Couplan, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Indians. Its apache name means "to make bread with it." The young shoots of the European form have been eaten raw or cooked since Humulus lupulus Antiquity in Europe and Asia. They are still sold in some local markets and are used by creative chefs in high-class restaurants. Their taste is very aromatic with a touch of bitterness. The female cones can also be used as a flavoring for drinks or to make tea, though in moderation because of their strong taste.

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications Christian Ratsch See book keywords and concepts

Gray) Greene (Leguminosae)—deervetch, Wright's horn clover The Navajo Indians regard this plant as a "life medicine" and use it ritually in hunting (Vestal 1958, 32*). The apache used the roots as an inebriating additive for their homemade beer (see beer). It is possible that the root cortex contains alkaloids, e.g., tryptamines, which are also found in many other plants of the same family. Lucuma salicifolia H.B.K.

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