Native Plants, Native Healing
Title | Native Plants, Native Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Tis Mal Crow |
Publisher | Native Voices Books |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | 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.
Plants of Power
Title | Plants of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Savinelli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781570671302 |
Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples presents 14 significant plants, with information on their properties, growing conditions, and medicinal applications (incense cedar, red cedar, copal, juniper, lavender, mugwort, osha, pinon, white sage, desert sage, sweet grass, ceremonial tabacco, red willow bark and yerba santa). Descriptions of Native American ceremonies and rituals in which these plants play a central role are included.
Encyclopedia of Native American Healing
Title | Encyclopedia of Native American Healing PDF eBook |
Author | William S. Lyon |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780393317350 |
Designed for ease of use with maps, a detailed subject index, an extensive bibliography, and cross references, this book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in Native American culture and heritage.
Native American Medicinal Plants
Title | Native American Medicinal Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel E. Moerman |
Publisher | Timber Press (OR) |
Pages | 799 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | 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.
Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use
Title | Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use PDF eBook |
Author | Cecilia Garcia |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-09-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780976309192 |
Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie
Title | Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Kindscher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN |
Kindscher documents the medicinal use of 203 native prairie plants by the Plains Indians. He also adds information on recent pharmacological findings to further illuminate the medicinal nature of these plants. He uses Indian, common, and scientific names and describes Anglo folk uses, medicinal uses, scientific research, and cultivation.
Living Wild
Title | Living Wild PDF eBook |
Author | Alicia Funk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Cooking (Wild foods) |
ISBN | 9780983309208 |