Revered Roots (eBook)

Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible, and Medicinal Plants

LoriAnn Bird (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
224 Seiten
Cool Springs Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-9326-0 (ISBN)

Infos

With Indigenous Metis herbalist LoriAnn Bird as your guide, connect with the ancestral wisdom of over 90 wild edible and medicinal plants from across North America.A purposeful and powerful reference to the lessons, nourishment, healing, and history of our ';plant teachers,' Revered Roots shares guidance on exploring, gathering, and reclaiming these long-revered plants as food and medicine. Separated into two sections, LoriAnn first reveals her own journey to understanding and respecting our plant elders. She offers teachings and lessons about remembering our relationship to the plants around us and our responsibility to the earth that sustains us.The second part of the book is filled with insightful illustrated plant profiles detailing the identification, uses, and Indigenous folklore of some of the continent's most treasured ancestral plants. Included are edible and medicinal bark, berries, and buds from trees and shrubs, as well as foliage, flowers, and fronds from herbs, ';weeds,' and wildflowers; some native to the continent, others introduced generations ago.Learn about the gifts our Rooted Nation of plants has to offer, including:Evergreen tips from spruces, pines, and firsHawthorn berries, leaves, and flowersPlantain seeds and foliageOswego tea leaves and bloomsSlippery elm barkMotherwort flowers, stems, and leavesBlack cohosh roots and rhizomesMarshmallow rootCottonwood buds and barkPlus dozens moreReclaiming our natural rhythms and connections to the earth we walk on is essential to our health and well-being, both as individuals and as a community. One simple way to do that is by appreciating, respecting, and seeking to understand the plants around us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.3.2025
• Zusatzinfo: color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Activities • Activity • American Indian • ancestors • ancestral plant wisdom • Ancient • apothecary • Bible • biocultural diversity • BIPOC author • Botanical • Botany • celebrate • common maladies • Community • Cultural • cultural heritage • decoration • Earth Day • Ecology • edible • Environment • Essays • Ethical • ethnobotany • First Nations peoples • foraging • Gardening • guide to plant medicine • healing arts • held by the land • herbal benefits • herbalism • herbalism bible • Herbalist • herbal medicine • Heritage • heritage month • honorable harvest • Idea • Identification • Indian • Indigenous Peoples Day • Indigenous Peoples' Day • indigenous plant use • Land • Land-based • Lore • Medicinal plants • Metis • Native • native american herbalism book • native american heritage month • native voices • Natural History • Nature restoration • North America • November • Outdoor • phytotherapy • Planting • Profile • Reciprocity • Reference • Relations • relationship with mother earth • remedy • remembering • respect • reverence • Spirituality • Spring • Stewardship • thanksgiving • Traditional Ecological Knowledge • traditional healing • Traditional medicine • Traditions • tribal medicines • turtle island • Wild • wildcrafting • wild medicines
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-9326-5 / 0760393265
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-9326-0 / 9780760393260