Description:Earth Medicine, Earth Food is an A-to-Z reference to the plant remedies and wild foods used by the Indians. Organized by condition - from allergies to female complaints to wounds - it explains which plants were used by different tribes to treat specific maladies, how they were prepared, and how to identify them in the wild. You'll learn that: The Catawba Indians treated back pain with a tea of arnica roots; The Iroquois and Mohegans used the boneset weed for colds and fever; The Blackfoot Indians applied a paste of scarlet mallow to burns as a cooling agent; The Menominees cured insomnia with a tea steeped from the leaves of the partridge berry plant and The Onondagas drank pennyroyal tea for headache.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Earth medicine--earth food: Plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians. To get started finding Earth medicine--earth food: Plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Macmillan Pub. Co.
Release
1980
ISBN
002625610X
Earth medicine--earth food: Plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians
Description: Earth Medicine, Earth Food is an A-to-Z reference to the plant remedies and wild foods used by the Indians. Organized by condition - from allergies to female complaints to wounds - it explains which plants were used by different tribes to treat specific maladies, how they were prepared, and how to identify them in the wild. You'll learn that: The Catawba Indians treated back pain with a tea of arnica roots; The Iroquois and Mohegans used the boneset weed for colds and fever; The Blackfoot Indians applied a paste of scarlet mallow to burns as a cooling agent; The Menominees cured insomnia with a tea steeped from the leaves of the partridge berry plant and The Onondagas drank pennyroyal tea for headache.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Earth medicine--earth food: Plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians. To get started finding Earth medicine--earth food: Plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.