Isbn: 9780888390776 - Guide to Indian Herbs (41 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Before European immigration to North America and for some time afterwards, the Indigenous peoples maintained an extensive stock of herbal medicines that they gathered from the forests, plains and mountains of their environment. This well-illustrated handbook describes 52 of the best-known herbs used by the First Peoples of North America. Each plant is identified by locale, sketch and photograph, and the uses to which each was put are briefly described. Tonics, inhalants, poultices, laxatives, diuretics, sedatives - there was a plant for every need. Some of these tribal remedies passed - often in more sophisticated form - into the repertoire of the medical profession; many others have a secure place in the annals of folk medicine. More than 200 medicinal plants indigenous to the Americas have been official in the United States Pharmacopoeia since the first edition was published in 1820. In addition to these, perhaps another 300 herbs known to Indigenous healers have been used by doctors, and a considerable number of these have been investigated by pharmaceutical firms and brought out under various names in the form of extracts or compounds or in synthetic forms.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This well-illustrated handbook describes 52 of the best-known herbs used by the Indians of North America. Each plant is identified by locale, sketch and photograph, and the uses to which each was put are briefly described. Tonics, inhalants, poultices, laxatives, diuretics, sedatives -- there was a plant for every need. Some of these tribal remedies passed -- often in more sophisticated form -- into the repertoire of the medical profession; many others have a secure place in the annals of folk medicine. Indigenous peoples maintained an extensive stock of herbal medicines that they gathered from the forests, plains and mountains of their environment. This guidebook describes the best-known herbs used by the First Peoples of North America. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Condition: New. 1981. 3rd. Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, colour photos & b/w drawings. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 3. Weight in Grams: 100. . . . . .

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Condition: New. 1981. 3rd. Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, colour photos & b/w drawings. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 3. Weight in Grams: 100. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Condition: Fine. Tight, clean and unmarked-" This well-illustrated handbook describes 52 of the best-known herbs used by the Indians of North America. Each plant is identified by locale, sketch and photograph, and the uses to which each was put are briefly described. Tonics, inhalants, poultices, laxatives, diuretics, sedatives - there was a plant for every need. Some of these tribal remedies passed - often in more sophisticated form - into the repertoire of the medical profession; many others have a secure place in the annals of folk medicine.". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Fine +. 3'rd Printing. Page 8 of this 48 page volume introduces us to Arrowhead, or by the Latin name: Sagittaria latifolia.; the tubers of which were used as food. Hence the nasme `swamp potato'. Chinook people knew it as wapato. The leaves were used as an astringent. Roughly 49 other plants get similar coverage. Each with a colour photo or a b/w drawing. Among them; Menominee, Culver's root and cow-parsnip. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with black lettering. Among the five colour photos on the cover one quickly recognizes dandelion and sweet flag and red clover. Bright, tight, square, and clean. No names, no marks. Excellent field reference. Quote (p. 33) : " This perennial, also called Tail Boneset, grows in moist soil from New Brunswick to Manitoba ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Colour Photographs (illustrator). …