Author : Edith Van Allen Murphey
Publisher : Meyerbooks, Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9780916638153
Native American's use of plants for food and medicine includes Native American common and botanical names.
Author : Frances Densmore
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs
Author : Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486139328
Chronological historical citations document 500 years of usage of plants, trees, and shrubs native to eastern Canada and northeastern United States. Also complete identifying information, 343 illustrations. "You can't go wrong." — Botanic & Herb Reviews.
Author : Donna Largo
Publisher :
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2009
Category : 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.
Author : Alma R. Hutchens
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1991-08-27
Category : 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.
Author : Tis Mal Crow
Publisher : Native Voices Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : Edith Van Allen Murphey
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Botany
ISBN :
Author : Edward K. Balls
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520000728
Information from many sources has been compiled here to present the most important uses of plants by early inhabitants of California, as well as methods of preparing the plants for use. The Indian method of leaching acorn meal so it could be eaten, the medicinal value of Yerba Mansa, the use of other plants for making baskets, rope, and clothing, are some of the subjects treated.
Author : Daniel E. Moerman
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780881924534
An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than 4000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented here. This is undoubtedly the most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken, preserving an enormous store of information for the future.
Author : Daniel E. Moerman
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : 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.
