An ethnographic study of salt use and humoral concepts in a Latino farm worker community in California ’s Central Valley

This article reports on the use of domestic or table salt for its perceived health effects and healing properties in a Latino farmworker community. It explores how contemporary salt usage beliefs can be seen t...

Source: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine - February 8, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Judith C. Barker, Claudia Guerra, M. Judy Gonzalez-Vargas and Kristin S. Hoeft Source Type: research