
Title:
Native plants, native healing : traditional Muskogee way
Author:
Publication Date:
2001
Publication Information:
Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices Book Pub., ©2001.
Physical Description:
143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781570671050
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Tis Mal Crow, Root Doctor -- Introduction -- Responsible Harvesting Versus Cultivation -- Some Words of Caution -- Gathering Herbs -- Getting started -- Doctrine of signatures -- Kofumu and communicating with plants -- Taboos -- Sacred harvesting of herbs -- Moon phases and harvesting -- Barking trees -- Gathering : looking in the right places -- Common sense and safety tips -- Hunting and gathering laws -- Buying herbs -- Making Medicines -- Utensils -- Making teas -- Disposal of herbs -- Alcohol -- Making tinctures -- Cutting tinctures -- Making liniments -- Quick starting a tincture or liniment -- Making oils for internal use -- Making oils, lotions, and salves for external use -- Transdermals : absorbing medicine through the skin -- Capsules and pills -- Other medicine delivery forms : smoke, steam, and spiritual fumigants -- The Plants -- Sweet Leaf/Wild Bergamot -- Bloodroot -- False Solomon's Seal -- Echinacea -- Solomon's Seal -- Calamus -- Sassafras -- St. John's Wort -- Sweet Fern -- Tansy -- Tulip Poplar -- Violet -- Wintergreen -- Yarrow -- Birch -- Boneset -- Bull Thistle -- Catnip -- Cattail -- Cherry -- Dandelion -- Field Horsetail/Scouring Rush.
Language:
English