How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts
Title | How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | 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
How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts
Title | How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Botany, Medical |
ISBN |
Use of plants by Native Americans.
Indian Use of Wild Plants for Crafts, Food, Medicine, and Charms
Title | Indian Use of Wild Plants for Crafts, Food, Medicine, and Charms PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts |
Total Pages | 121 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Ethnobotany |
ISBN | 9780919645165 |
Indian Herbalogy of North America
Title | Indian Herbalogy of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Alma R. Hutchens |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1991-08-27 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0834824396 |
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.
A Handbook of Native American Herbs
Title | A Handbook of Native American Herbs PDF eBook |
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.
Survival Skills of the North American Indians
Title | Survival Skills of the North American Indians PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Goodchild |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1569765030 |
This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader to duplicate native methods using materials available in local habitats. A new foreword, introduction, and index complement the practical information offered.
Plants of the Cherokee
Title | Plants of the Cherokee PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Banks |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 9780937207437 |
This extraordinary book is based on research conducted by William Banks on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in the 1950s. It describes traditional Cherokee uses for more than 300 plants -- medicinals, edibles, natural dyes, and more. Banks documented herbal treatments for a huge range of ailments, everything from coughs and colds to rheumatism, diabetes, and cancer, back when some Cherokee elders still practiced the old ways. Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association, it includes wonderful botanical illustrations.