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bibliography Folklore. Handbooks and manuals. Handbooks. History. Nonfiction. Sources.Jepson Wolf, Rachel
Summary: "In Herbal Adventures, you'll pull on your boots and discover the magical plants that are growing just beyond your door. Explore nearby parks, fields, and forests, then make all sorts of tasty and useful things for your family and friends! Start with a delicious homemade soda, flower petal pancakes, or a soothing balm for cuts and scrapes. Sip herbal tea that's fit for the fairies, craft syrup...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Young Voyageur Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018
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Summary: A reference to the medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America includes specific remedies for asthma, headaches, colds, stomachaches, depression, and many other common ailments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Summary: This book is filled with stories, teachings, culinary and medicinal recipes from Anishinaabe traditions, handed down from past generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2015
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Summary: Plants of the Midwest provide an wealth of botanical diversity. Whether you are already adept at finding, identifying, harvesting and safely using wild medicinal plants, or are just starting out, this guide will help you wildcraft your way to wellness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 ROSCohen, Deatra
Summary: "A rediscovery of the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in eastern Europe's Pale of Settlement, from the Middle Ages through the modern era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 COHFeghali, Layla K.
Summary: "A cultural history of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan that explores how they connect family and kin in diaspora"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 FEGAxe, Josh
Summary: In a world where medicine cabinets are packed full of prescription medications and synthetic drugs--with lists of dangerous side effects longer than benefits--it's time to discover a superior alternative with thousands of years of historical backing and current scientific review. It's time to be educated on what essentials oil are and why they are so powerful, to feel empowered to use essential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Axe Wellness. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 EssCech, Richo
Summary: Making Plant Medicine is about making herbal medicine. This is a modern medicine making book and formulary with its roots in original herbalism designed for every medicinal herb gardener to cultivate the full potential of the plant-human relationship. Richo Cech tells very good stories based on his experience as a global wanderer, gardener, herbalist and medicine maker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herbal Reads 2016
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Summary: "Collected here are insightful tips and detailed descriptions relating to the edibility and healing potential of more than one hundred wild plants. Drawing on expansive personal experience as well as more than a thousand scientific and ethnobotanical studies, author Matthew Alfs offers tips on foraging for and identifying the plants growing in the fields, meadows, and woods of the Midwest. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 ALFWong, James
Summary: With easy recipes using ingredients grown in your window box or the local market, ethnobotanist James Wong shows you how easy--and cheap--it is to make simple creams, salves, teas, lozenges, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 2009
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Summary: "A guide to growing and harvesting healing plants, with advice on how to create herbal preparations and in-depth discussions of the properties and uses of various plants"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2021
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Summary: This back-to-nature reference guide details effective herbal medicines and natural remedies for digestive complaints, sore muscles, wound healing, teenage acne, allergic reactions, and much more. This book is packed with herbal wisdom, traditional use, and just the right amount of science. Gain confidence and understand how to use plant medicine in your home. Dive into the alchemy and art of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 YARSummary: Provides information on scientific and common names, characteristics, active compounds, clinical effects, indications, usage, clinical research, precautions, interactions, and dosage for over seven hundred herbs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 615.321 PDRNaegele, Thomas A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Adventure Books 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 581.63 NAEHutchens, Alma R.
Summary: An illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than 200 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. It includes an annotated bibliography of pertinent books...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1991
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Castleman, Michael
Summary: Based on more than 3,000 research studies, The New Healing Herbs summarizes the folklore about America's most popular herbs and then presents authoritative scientific analyses of the latest research worldwide to show you how to get the most from nature's oldest remedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.3 CASBuhner, Stephen Harrod.
Summary: "Enraged, Energized, Exultant. You won't know how to feel after reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's The Lost Language of Plants. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not." "Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2002
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Summary: The definitive home reference guide to 550 key herbs with all their uses as remedies for common ailments. Mind, Body, Spirit Series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brockhampton Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 PETSchneider, Anny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 SCHJoseph, Leigh
Summary: Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge. Plants can be a great source of healing as well as nourishment, and the practice of growing and harvesting from trees, flowering herbs, and other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land. The Indigenous Peoples...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.6 JOSBloom, Jessi
Summary: In this uplifting guide, bestselling author Jessi Bloom inspires you to turn any outdoor space, from a small balcony to a large garden, into a personal sanctuary for health and wellness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arco Pub. Co. 1977