Author: Enrique Salmón Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1643260340 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 694
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In this powerful book, Salmón reveals the deep relationship between people and plants by exploring 80 plants of importance to American Indians.
Author: Enrique Salm—n Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816530114 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 185
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Examines historical and cultural knowledge of traditional Indigenous foodways that are rooted in an understanding of environmental stewardship.
Author: Daniel E. Moerman Publisher: Timber Press (OR) ISBN: 9780881924534 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 927
Book Description
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: Angela Locklear Queen Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 270
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Improve your well-being with Native American herbal medicine. Native American herbal medicine offers a powerful way to connect with the earth and heal naturally—and with this handbook of Native American herbs, you can learn all about herb uses and their restorative effects. Written by an Indigenous herbalist, this guide shows you how to responsibly use traditional plants to treat anxiety, colds, inflammation, and more. This standout among books about herbs and healing will help you: Learn about a time-honored practice—Discover the origins of Indigenous peoples' herbalism, its traditional and modern uses, and how tools like the medicine wheel teach us about our relationship with the natural world. Identify the essential herbs—Explore the healing properties of medicinal herbs for wellness, from anise hyssop to yerba santa. Make 75 natural remedies—Ease physical and emotional ailments with remedies like Memory Support Tea, Stress-Induced Headache Tincture, and Antibacterial Healing Herb Liniment. Tap into traditional wisdom today with this Native American herbal medicine book for health and well-being.
Author: George Barnett Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813199085 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 272
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With rich soils, thousands of creeks, and twelve major river basins, the state of Kentucky is abundant with wild edibles that not only are delicious but also can be useful for medicinal purposes. Various species of wildflowers such as spring beauty, edible fungi like chanterelles, and tree crops such as hickory nuts may be foraged and pickled, steamed, candied, or stir-fried to create an enticing, healthy, and substantial meal. Foraging Kentucky is an expansive beginners' guide to safely and ethically foraging in the state. The species covered in the book are divided into three categories: herbaceous plants, fungi, and woody plants. Author, forager, and environmental educator George Barnett shares his extensive knowledge on the proper identification of the featured species, where and when they grow, and how to harvest and prepare them for consumption. Complete with high-definition color photographs, recipes, and short history lessons, this guide is chock-full of crucial information for readers who want to forge an enlightening relationship with the delectable foods naturally available in Kentucky's great outdoors.
Author: Virgil J. Vogel Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806170239 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 669
Book Description
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
Author: Jeffrey Wall Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000592480 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 253
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This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. This field of value, comprising cosmological, aesthetic, eco-erotic, sentimental, mnemonic value and much more, serves as powerful motivation for the local performance of environmental care. The motivation to maintain and conserve ecology for the purpose of cultural survival will be the central focus of this book, as the conditions of the Anthropocene urgently require the identification, understanding and support of enduring, self-perpetuating biocultural associations. The geographical scope is broad with chapters discussing different tree species from the Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia, Eurasia and Australia and Africa. By focusing on the tree, one of the most reliably cross-culturally-valued and cross-culturally-recognized biological forms, and one which invariably defines expansive landscapes, this work illuminates how folk value binds the survival of more-than-human life forms with the survival of specific peoples in the era of biocultural loss, the Anthropocene. As such, this collection of cross-cultural cases of tree folk value represents a low hanging fruit for the larger project of exploring the power of cultural value of the more-than-human living world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, biodiversity, biocultural studies and environmental anthropology.
Author: Huron H. Smith Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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This work is the third in a series of six books about the fieldwork done among Wisconsin Indians to discover their uses of native or introduced plants and. The author dedicates much attention to the history of these plant uses by their ancestors. The author also mentions the decline of the native art and traditions of planting the younger generations of the people.
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