The first comprehensive pocket-size guide to medicinal plants shows how to identify 500 of these plants.

A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series, 40)

Steven Foster

Houghton Mifflin (T)

Medicinal Plants of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Houghton/Mifflin

For millennia, humans have looked to nature for remedies to ailments great and small. Long before formal science enabled us to take a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of dozens of diseases, and treat complaints of every kind. And today, countless people still use medicinal plants, whether in traditional roles or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs. Featuring 350 full-color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this accessible, fact-filled book is based on the work of renowned botanical experts and presents alphabetically arranged, beautifully illustrated entries for hundreds of plants touted for millennia to soothe, even heal. Each is clearly described, with full details of its physical appearance and medicinal uses; its origins and geographic distribution, how it's harvested and used in conventional and alternative medicine, a range map; and more. It's also a fascinating medical chronicle filled with informative sidebars on everything from ancient folklore to the latest research. Readers learn how aspirin evolved from a concoction of willow bark to the familiar white pill of today, how the foxglove's flowery beauty contributes to the potent heart drug digitalis, and how many other now common treatments have deep historical and cultural roots. It's a journey that starts many centuries ago in remote places like the Amazon rain forest, where shamans practiced their powerful curative magic of plants, and leads to the high-tech pharmaceutical labs of today's scientists working to discover new plant-based drugs that can be used effectively to treat diseases major and minor alike, from cancer to the common cold.

Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine

Rebecca L. Johnson

National Geographic Society

Oblong 24mo, , PP.192, Signed With Best Herbal Wishes By The Author

Herbal Bounty: The Gentle Art of Herb Culture

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Gibbs-Smith

Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. 
Movingly rendered, The Book of the Vision Quest is for all who long for renewal and personal transformation. In this revised editionâwith two new chapters and added tales from vision questersâSteven Foster recounts his experiences guiding contemporary seekers. He recreates an ancient rite of passageâthat of “dying,” “passing through,” and “being reborn”âknown as a vision quest. A sacred ceremony that culminates in a three-day, three-night fast, alone, in a place of natural power, the vision quest is a mystical, practical, and intensely personal journey of self-knowledge.

The Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness

History

Meredith Little

Americas

New Leaf Distributors

Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. Movingly rendered, The Book of the Vision Quest is for all who long for renewal and personal transformation. In this revised editionâwith two new chapters and added tales from vision questersâSteven Foster recounts his experiences guiding contemporary seekers. He recreates an ancient rite of passageâthat of “dying,” “passing through,” and “being reborn”âknown as a vision quest. A sacred ceremony that culminates in a three-day, three-night fast, alone, in a place of natural power, the vision quest is a mystical, practical, and intensely personal journey of self-knowledge.

Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness

Psychology & Counseling

Bear Tribe Pub.

Publisher: South Dakota School of Mines. Publication date: 1918 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Lost Borders Press

Bound for the Craigs of Ithaka: A Romance for Men Going Home

Positive Discipline for Early Childhood Educators Positive Discipline Skills and Concepts for Those Who Love and Work with Young Children

Jane Nelsen

Cheryl Erwin

Empowering People, Incorporated

In ancient China, people observed that when certain plants were consumed, disease was reduced or dispelled. These herbs evolved to become medicines, and when passing this herbal knowledge from one generation to the next, it was essential that it be accurate. Herbalists and monks were primary medical practitioners in Chinese tradition, but they were not without their own greed and corruption. Peasants, therefore, devised historical and mythical tales to help common people remember names, uses, physical descriptions and locations of herbs. These orally transmitted tales were threaded with entertaining plots, scenic descriptions and gripping tension. From 1934 to 1980, folklorist Miao Wen-wei collected these stories from peasants, farmers and traditional doctors in the central coastal region of China's Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces. Herbal Pearls is a rare gem of fifty-three simple tales that convey justice, wisdom, moderation, cleverness and resourcefulness by use of memory aids and mnemonic clues. These stories are short and without complexities, and have a stirring charm and vibrant character that apply to life and health even in the age of electronic transmission.

Herbal Pearls: Traditional Chinese Folk Wisdom

Yue Chong-xi

Boian Books, LLC

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