Indian Herbalogy of North America: The Definitive Guide to Native Medicinal Plants and Their Uses

by Alma R. Hutchens

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780877736394
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	08/27/1991
Series:	Healing Arts
Edition description:	1st paperback ed
Pages:	424
Sales rank:	418,247
Product dimensions:	5.93(w) x 8.97(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Alma R. Hutchens, a close associate of the late herbalist N. G. Tretchikoff, has been a student and practitioner of herbal medicine for many years.