Good For What Ails You: Secrets of the Bayou Healers

Overview

Even today, on the Louisiana bayous, alligator grease relieves asthma, a buried potato cures warts, and "smoking a baby" eases the pains of colic. Enter this distinctive tradition of faith healing, herbal remedy, and ritual magic as this documentary follows respected "traiteurs" to gather wild teas, brew homemade cough syrup, invoke the saints at home altars, and most of all, heal the sick.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1998

Original language

English

Director

Glen Pitre

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0415826