Two overlapping bodies of practice: domestic folk medicine as recorded in Appalachia and the rural South, and the Eclectic and Physiomedical schools that trained physicians in the United States until the early twentieth century. The Eclectics left unusually detailed prescribing notes — King's American Dispensatory is still readable and still cited — which is why several of these pages can be specific about dose and preparation where other traditions cannot.
Not every remedy names a tradition. Browse the full A–Z index for all 3,787 remedies, including the 255 with no recorded tradition.
