Catherine's Curiosities
Articles on henna and hair by Catherine Cartwright-Jones, PhD

Henna and the Evil Eye, Salt and Lilith and the Geography of G6PD Deficiency Traditions of averting malevolent spirits with henna and salt to may have altered the incidence of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in populations across the North Africa, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. Recently, physicians have found that G6PD deficient neonates and young children, particularly males, who have been hennaed according to local blessing and curing traditions in Turkish and Bedouin Muslim cultures, suffer hyperbilirubinemia and acute hemolytic crisis. In Jewish traditions in the same regions, children were traditionally rubbed with salt rather than henna. This paper was written in partial fulfillment of requirements for PhD studies, under advisor Dr. J Tyner PhD, Geography Department, Kent State University, 2008. Read more: http://www.tapdancinglizard.com/g6pd/geog6pdhennalilith.pdf

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Henna on Fingertips, Feet, and Nails: Cosmetic and Practical Applications (Part One) Hennaed hair is stronger, smoother, shinier, and has lasting color. Because of its many beneficial properties, henna (lawsonia inermis) has been used not only on the hair but on many parts of the body for various purposes since possibly as early as 1700 BCE. Read more: http://www.becomingmoonlight.blog/2017/10/02/henna-on-body-part-one/

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