Alaska's Wilderness Medicines (eBook)

Healthful Plants of the Far North

Eleanor G. Viereck (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
112 Seiten
West Margin Press (Verlag)
978-0-88240-864-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergency first-aid care, or to maintain wellness. More than fifty plant species are described with information on habitat and distribution as well as general information on how each one can be used as medicine.

Inhalt

About This Book - Pg 1, Collecting Wild Plants - Pg 2, From Leaf to Tea - Pg 3, Alder - Pg 5, Angelica - Pg 7, Birch - Pg 9, Bistort - Pg 13, Chamomile - Pg 15, Chickweed - Pg 17, Cleavers - Pg 19, Coltsfoot - Pg 20, Cow Parsnip - Pg 23, Crowberry - Pg 25, Currant - Pg 26, Dandelion - Pg 27, Devil's Club - Pg 31, Fireweed - Pg 33, Highbush Cranberry - Pg 35, Horsetail - Pg 37, Iris - Pg 38, Juniper - Pg 41, Labrador Tea - Pg 43, Larch - Pg 45, Lowbush Cranberry - Pg 47, Plantain - Pg 49, Poplar - Pg 50, Raspberry - Pg 52, Rose - Pg 55, Shephers's Purse - Pg 57, Shield Fern - Pg 59, Soapberry - Pg 61, Sourdock - Pg 62, Sphagnum - Pg 65, Spruce - Pg 67, Strawberry - Pg 69, Sweet Gale - Pg 71, Uva-ursi - Pg 72, Willow - Pg 74, Wormwood - Pg 77, Yarrow - Pg. 79, Therapeutic Uses of AK Plants - Pg 82, Conditions Treated with AK plants - Pg 92, Glossary - Pg 92 References - Pg 97, Index - Pg 103

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2012
• Co-Autor: Patsy Turner Egan
• Illustrationen: Dominique Collett
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Schlagworte: Alaska • Alaskan medicinal plants • bibliography completes • Botany • cross-references • emergency first-aid care • first-aid care • Flowers • healing plants • Health • health and healing • healthful plants • herbal remedies • herb teas • illustrated glossary • manual of medicine • Medicinal • Medicinal Plants, Alaska, Therapeutic Uses, Healing Plants • native medicine • Natural History • Natural Medicine • plant collecting • plant habitat • plants as medicine • Reference book • rendered line drawings • science bibliography • science index • self-care • Shrubs • therapeutic uses • Trees • Wellness • wilderness medicine • Wilderness Medicines • wild plants
• ISBN-10: 0-88240-864-X / 088240864X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-88240-864-4 / 9780882408644