A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R)) | 
|  | | | Title: | A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R)) | | Author: | James A. Duke
Steven Foster
Roger Tory Peterson (Series Editor) | | Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 28 December, 1999 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0395988144 / 9780395988145 | | List Price: | $19.00 | | You Save: | $6.73 | | Amazon Price: | $12.27 | |
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Product Description
With more than 300 photos, this new edition shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. Descriptive text includes information on where the plants are found, as well as their known medicinal uses. An index to medical topics, symbols next to plant descriptions, and organization of plants by colors all make this an essential guide to understanding the traditional medicinal uses of the plants around us. At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than five hundred kinds of healing plants. More than three hundred new color photos illustrate their flowers, leaves, and fruits. The updated descriptive text includes information on where the plants are found as well as their known medicinal uses. An index to medical topics is helpful for quickly locating information on specific ailments, from asthma and headaches to colds and stomachaches. Symbols next to plant descriptions give readers a quick visual alert to plants that are poisonous or may cause allergic reactions. Organized by plant color for fast identification, this guide is an indispensable tool for understanding the traditional medicinal uses of the plants and herbs around us.
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Customer Reviews:
• Must Have In Yoru Library 23 September, 2007
This is another book I am constantly referencing. It is small enough to pack in your backpack or coat pocket if you want to identify plants in the wild.
Steven Foster also provides clear photographs to make it far easier to determine the plants.
The descriptions are good and have helped me several times identify plants in my region.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3RCXZAAS3IH1J
• A Must Have For Any Aspiring Or Seasoned Herbalist! 25 March, 2008
This book is an invaluable source of information and a very handy plant identification companion. It is a beautiful, compact guide with fantastic photos of individual plants and a ton of useful information.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2B2CZNFESVWRC
• Awesome Book 12 April, 2008
Very informative book. I like that it has pictures also, not just pencil sketches like some other books.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A36MA5WQYC55Z9
• An Herbalists Opinion 19 November, 2008
Inorder to relieve stress I like to wildcraft (find and collect my own herbs in the wild) this book has quickly become one of my favorites, its easy to use, and for some odd reason it has identified more herbs in the area that I live than any two of my other guides. I attribute this to Steven Foster, as I own numerous of his books, a great herbalist and author.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1KAGBQU3UXIB9
• It's A Great Book 06 October, 2008
This book is very nice, even if you just buy it for reading and understanding of plants rather than for class!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A203CWCIXULRS9
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