{"id":3255,"date":"2011-09-21T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:47:52","slug":"a-folk-healer-in-urban-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"A Folk Healer in Urban Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tamra

Tamra Meadows in her garden.<\/p><\/div>\n

An interesting story but it raises the old question: how much credit goes to the herb and how much to the herb-doctor:<\/p>\n

A lot of inner-city folks don’t have much money, don’t have any health insurance, and have little trust for the run-down clinics that cater to the poor. So if their illness isn’t too serious, many will rely on folk treatments or natural remedies passed down through families for years.<\/p>\n

And they rely on people like Meadows. Her reputation in the neighborhood has even earned her the nickname “The Witch Doctor.”<\/p>\n

“They say, ‘I know you got something over in the yard. I need you to fix me something up,'” Meadows says of her neighbors. She’s learned much of what she knows from books she’s studied, but a lot of it, she says, just comes to her. “I pray about it,” she says. “And I tell them, ‘It’s not me. It’s a power.’ Sometimes I tell God, ‘Leave me alone.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting story but it raises the old question: how much credit goes to the herb and how much to the herb-doctor: A lot of inner-city folks don’t have much money, don’t have any health insurance, and have little trust for the run-down clinics that cater to the poor. 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