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Earth Medicine-Earth Food: Plant Remedies, Drugs, and Natural Foods of the North American Indians - Softcover
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Describes the wild and cultivated plants used by American Indians for food and medicinal purposes
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Michael A. Weiner is a leading figure in the field of alternative medicine. He is the only person to have earned a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine from the University of California, Berkeley. During his twenty-year career he has collected plant samples from around the world. The author of fifteen books, including Nutrition Against Aging and Maximum Immunity, he is currently Executive Director of the Alzheimers Research Institute, Mill Valley, California.
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there was pharmacology as we know it, the North American Indians cured illness and maintained health by natural means, using the healing plants of the forest, desert, and seashore. Their discoveries continue to have impact on modern medicine: over 25 percent of all prescription drugs contain plant derivatives, and the mainstream medical establishment is acknowledging the effectiveness of herbal remedies in treating certain illnesses.
Earth Medicine, Earth Food is an A-to-Z reference to the plant remedies and wild foods used by the Indians. Organized by condition -- from allergies to female complaints to wounds -- it explains which plants were used by different tribes to treat specific maladies, how they were prepared, and how to identify them in the wild. You'll learn that:
-- The Catawba Indians treated back pain with a tea of arnica roots
-- The Iroquois and Mohegans used the boneset weed for colds and fever
-- The Blackfoot Indians applied a paste of scarlet mallow to
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- PublisherFawcett Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0449905896
- ISBN 13 9780449905890
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages230
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