{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Southern Folk Medicine with Phyllis Light","description":"Come with us to Arab, Alabama, to meet Phyllis Light, herbalist, responsible forager, native plant conservation advocate, founder of the Appalachian Center for Natural Health, and author of Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests. Phyliss Light was born on Brindlee Mountain, in this southwest extension of the Appalachian Mountains, into a family with Creek and Cherokee Indian roots. She learned herbalism from her grandmother, and spent long days of her childhood \u201cgleaning\u201d \u2013 harvesting wild foods and medicines, fishing and hunting, with her father. \u201cIt was a very practical kind of herbalism,\u201d Phyliss explains, \u201cif it didn\u2019t work, we didn\u2019t use it. We didn\u2019t have the money to go to the doctor unless it was something drastic.\u201d As an adult she was an apprentice of the late Tommie Bass, the world-renowned healer known as \u201cthe Herb Doctor of Shinbone Ridge.\u201d Although she has taught herbal medicine across the US, she has lived her whole life, and raised her family, on Brindlee Mountain. \u201cThere are over four thousand species of plants in this state,\u201d she says, \u201cand this is the place I know best-I\u2019ve never needed to live anywhere else.\u201d  Her book, Traditional Southern Folk Medicine, combines her unmatched knowledge of native plant medicine with deeply researched history into how this uniquely American healing tradition evolved, and how it has never been more relevant or needed than it is today.      ","author_name":"Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring","author_url":"http:\/\/backcountryhunters.libsyn.com\/website","html":"