Eddie L. Boyd

I was born in Canton MS. I was raised in the cotton fields of central Mississippi as the twelfth of thirteen children in a family with absolutely no financial resources. I enlisted in the US Air Force and was honorably discharged after completion of a four-year obligation and migrated to San Francisco, CA. I completed the Doctor of Pharmacy program at University of California School of Pharmacy and taught on their Clinical faculty for one year. I then transferred to the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and taught for twenty years. Subsequently I transferred to Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy as Ass0ciate Dean and Director of Research for two years. I returned to the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy for another ten years and retired in 2003. While at Michigan I coauthored or contributed to three books. I coauthored "Home Remedies and The Black Elderly in 1984. I contributed to "Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs (Volume 1)" in 1992. I also coauthored "African American Home Remedies-A Practical Guide With Usage and Application Data" in 2014. Approximately fifty percent of the home remedies and herbs discussed in the book were used on me when I was a child growing up in Canton, MS.