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.