This illustrated guide to North American wild medicinals has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K. Foster revises Bradford Angier's invaluable handbook, updating the taxonomy and adding more than a dozen species, including the purple coneflower, popularly known as echinacea, as well as ephedra, jewelweed, goldenseal, and more. Scientific information for a general audience and full-color illustrations combine with intriguing accounts of the plants' uses, making this a practical guide for anyone interested in the medicinal uses of wild plants.
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David K. Foster is associate professor of biology and environmental science at Messiah College in Pennsylvania and a member of the Society of American Foresters.
Bradford Angier is the author of numerous best-selling books on nature and outdoor living, including Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants (978-0-8117-2076-2), Wilderness Shelters and How to Build Them (978-1-5857-4430-5), and Looking for Gold (978-0-8117-2034-2). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Bradford Angier is the author of numerous best-selling books on nature and outdoor living, including Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants (978-0-8117-2076-2), Wilderness Shelters and How to Build Them (978-1-5857-4430-5), and Looking for Gold (978-0-8117-2034-2). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Bradford Angier (1910 - 1997) was a wilderness survivalist and the author of numerous best-selling books on nature, survival, and living off the land.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants (Paperback)
If you think that you're going to hike into the wilderness and learn to identify medicinal plants with this book, you may be in for a surprise. There is no index except for the list of common names in the front. An index with the Latin names as well as the pathological conditions the plants are useful for would have been helpful. There also seems to be no logic (except maybe to the author)to the order of the plants presented. It would be quite difficult for you to identify a plant with this book unless you already had some guess as to what you were looking at, and then look THAT up. A more descriptive title would have been just plain "Medicinal Wild Plants of North America."(i.e. nix the "Field Guide" part because, that it certainly ain't!) Having said that, I think the book is worth reading just for the information you get from it. I certainly learned a lot about how the plants were used from a historical perspective (lots of anecdotes about the native Americans and their herbal medicines).
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A full page is dedicated to each plant, showing in color, a detailed drawing of the leaves and flower, fruit or other identifying characteristic. The text is at least a page and covers: Family, Common Names, Characteristics, Area and Uses. The text is easy to read and offers interesting notes about the plant's uses, primarily from American Indians and pioneers. This is not a field identification book, but it provides additional information to a known plant. The guide is alphabetical by common name.
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I got this book in hopes of helping myself naturaly. I have found it very informative and now use some of the plants every day to hopfully stay healthy. I'm glad that I got it and was very satisfied with my purchese
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Amaranth is an erect annual, some 1 to 6 feet high, and branched above. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
true watercress, scrubbed roots, wild horseradish, red laver, other cold symptoms, two smooth stones, rock tripe, strawberry blite, wild medicinal, caribou moss, wild licorice, eastern redcedar, sweet rush, wild tea, mountain tea, compass plant, tea steeped, wild gooseberry, expel worms, drunk cold, strawberry tomato, spring tonic, scurvy grass, sea moss, root tea Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Amaranth is an erect annual, some 1 to 6 feet high, and branched above. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
true watercress, scrubbed roots, wild horseradish, red laver, other cold symptoms, two smooth stones, rock tripe, strawberry blite, wild medicinal, caribou moss, wild licorice, eastern redcedar, sweet rush, wild tea, mountain tea, compass plant, tea steeped, wild gooseberry, expel worms, drunk cold, strawberry tomato, spring tonic, scurvy grass, sea moss, root tea Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New World, North America, Department of Agriculture, New England, British Columbia, New Mexico, Old World, New Brunswick, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Nova Scotia, American Revolution, New Jersey, New York, South Dakota, North Carolina, Dominion of Canada, Lawrence River, The Catawbas, Rocky Mountains, The Mohicans, The Rappahannocks, The Shoshones, West Virginia New!
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- On Your Own In the Wilderness by Bradford Angier in Front Matter
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- Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee--An African American Herbal Healer (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Arvilla Payne-Jackson in Back Matter
- Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Bradford Angier in Front Matter
- Alaska's Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North by Eleanor Viereck in Back Matter
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