Medicinal Plants of North America

A Field Guide, 2nd Edition

Jim Meuninck

This exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention.

The book takes the user from simple and familiar plants ones that are less common and more difficult to identify. Each of the 122 plant entries includes a color photograph, plant description, and location. Plants are grouped according to how common or rare they are, as well as to where they are found: prairies, woodlands, mountains, deserts, and wetlands.

Relevant facts about each plant include toxicity, historical uses, modern uses, as well as wildlife/veterinary uses. Additional information featured in this extraordinary field guide: explanations of how each plant affects the human body; cultural and ethnic uses of medicinal herbs and cooking spices; others creatures who consume the plants; a list of most recommended garden herbs; web site resources, and much more.

Globe Pequot / Falcon Guides

Pages: 232 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-1961-8 • Paperback • June 2016 • $24.95 • (£18.99)

978-1-4930-1962-5 • eBook • June 2016 • $23.50 • (£17.99)

Subjects: Nature / Plants / General, Nature / General, Nature / Plants / Trees, Nature / Reference

Medicinal Plants of North America

A Field Guide, 2nd Edition

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Summary

This exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention.

The book takes the user from simple and familiar plants ones that are less common and more difficult to identify. Each of the 122 plant entries includes a color photograph, plant description, and location. Plants are grouped according to how common or rare they are, as well as to where they are found: prairies, woodlands, mountains, deserts, and wetlands.

Relevant facts about each plant include toxicity, historical uses, modern uses, as well as wildlife/veterinary uses. Additional information featured in this extraordinary field guide: explanations of how each plant affects the human body; cultural and ethnic uses of medicinal herbs and cooking spices; others creatures who consume the plants; a list of most recommended garden herbs; web site resources, and much more.

Details

Globe Pequot / Falcon Guides

Pages: 232 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-1961-8 • Paperback • June 2016 • $24.95 • (£18.99)

978-1-4930-1962-5 • eBook • June 2016 • $23.50 • (£17.99)

Subjects: Nature / Plants / General, Nature / General, Nature / Plants / Trees, Nature / Reference

Author

JJim Meuninck is a biologist and counselor who, for more than thirty years, has studied the use of wild plants as food and medicine in North America, Europe, Central America, Japan, and China. Jim specializes in ethnobotanical media. He lives on the shores of Eagle Lake, in Edwardsburg, Michigan. Join Jim on Facebook.

Table of Contents

(1) What Are Medicinal Plants? (2) Medicinal Plants of Yards, Prairies, Roadsides, and Meadows (3) Medicinal Herbs of Eastern Forested Areas (4) Woody Plants of Eastern Forests, Yards, Meadows, and Roadsides (5) Medicinal Herbs of Wetlands (6) Woody Wetland Plants (7) Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West (8) Medicinal Plants of the West Coast (9) Medicinal Plants of the Desert (10) Appendix A: Longevity Index (11) Appendix B: Jim Meuninck's Top-Eleven Garden Herbs (12) Appendix C: Helpful Web Sites (13) Appendix D: References and Resources (14) Index

Medicinal Plants of North America

A Field Guide, 2nd Edition

Jim Meuninck

Medicinal Plants of North America

A Field Guide, 2nd Edition

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