Native Plants, Native Healing

Native Plants, Native Healing
Author: Tis Mal Crow
Publisher: Native Voices Books
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 157067986X

This book is a must for beginners and serious students of herbs and of Native American ways. This set of herbal teachings, which draws strongly from the Muscogee tradition, presents an understanding of the healing nature of plants for the first time in book form. In a time of expanding awareness of the potential of herbs, this work shines and beckons. Tis Mal examines common wild plants and in a clear and authoritative style explains how to identify, honor, select, and prepare them for use. Illustrated and indexed by plant name and medical topic.

Native American Medicinal Plants

Native American Medicinal Plants
Author: Daniel E. Moerman
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 799
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0881929875

Describing the medicinal uses of over 2,700 plants by 218 Native American tribes, the author organizes his extensive research into eighty-two categories--including contraceptives, gastrointestinal aids, sedatives, toothache remedies, and more--and provides indexes arranged by tribe, usage, and common name, as well as 150 line drawings.

Indian Herbalogy of North America

Indian Herbalogy of North America
Author: Alma R. Hutchens
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991-08-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0877736391

An encyclopedia of North American medicinal plants, this classic herbalist’s guide goes inside Native American herbalism and other natural healing traditions around the world For more than twenty years, this pioneering work had served as a bible for herbalists throughout the world. It is an illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than two hundred medicinal plants found in North America, with descriptions of each plant’s appearance and uses, and directions for methods of use and dosage. Native American traditions are compared with traditional uses of the same plants among other cultures where the science of herbs has flourished, particularly in Russia and China. Included is an annotated bibliography of pertinent books and periodicals.

Plants of Power

Plants of Power
Author: Alfred Savinelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781570671302

Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples presents 14 significant plants, with information on their properties, growing conditions, and medicinal applications (incense cedar, red cedar, copal, juniper, lavender, mugwort, osha, pinon, white sage, desert sage, sweet grass, ceremonial tabacco, red willow bark and yerba santa). Descriptions of Native American ceremonies and rituals in which these plants play a central role are included.

Living Wild

Living Wild
Author: Alicia Funk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2013
Genre: Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN: 9780983309208

Medicinal Plants Used by Native American Tribes in Southern California

Medicinal Plants Used by Native American Tribes in Southern California
Author: Donna Largo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2009
Genre: Ethnobotany
ISBN: 9780879190002

"The purpose of this project is to provide a resource guide for medical providers and traditional health care practitioners in an effort to better coordinate patient care with traditional practices. This guide will help to illuminate some contraindications of western medicine with Southern California Native American traditional medicine, in hopes of protecting patients from any negative reactions. A secondary purpose ... is to make available information about traditional medicine to anyone interested in disease prevention through Native American knowledge and traditions."--P. 1.

A Handbook of Native American Herbs

A Handbook of Native American Herbs
Author: Alma R. Hutchens
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1992-11-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0834824221

The author of ‘the bible on herbalism’ returns with a portable guide on North American medicinal herbs—for the professional and amateur herbalist alike Based on the now-classic reference text Indian Herbalogy of North America, this illustrated pocket guide is the perfect companion for those eager to expand their knowledge of herbal healing. Through detailed descriptions and illustrations, Alma R. Hutchens walks readers through: • 125 of the most useful medicinal herbs found in North America, and their uses • How to create herbal remedies for common ailments • The herbal traditions of North America and other lands Entries include staples of folk medicine such as echinacea and slippery elm as well as common kitchen herbs—from parsley to thyme to pepper—whose tonic and healing properties are less widely known.

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie

Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie
Author: Kelly Kindscher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. He also adds information on recent pharmacological findings to further illuminate the medicinal nature of these plants. He uses Indian, common, and scientific names and describes Anglo folk uses, medicinal uses, scientific research, and cultivation.

Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of the Midwest

Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of the Midwest
Author: Matthew Alfs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781681341750

An authoritative and easy-to-use reference to the medicinal and edible properties of wild plants from throughout the upper Midwest. An essential guide for anyone interested in natural healing.