Ratings
Rated: 178 times. Average rating 4.90
Description
Michael Moore, renowned herbalist, teacher, and author of several medicinal plant books, presents a one-of-a-kind guide to over 300 species of plants geographically ranging from Baja California to Alaska. This uniquely attractive book educates the reader to both native and introduced species within this region. With over eighty line drawings, forty-four colour photographs, maps, and a glossary, this book contains clear and reliable information on: identification and safe use of the plants; appearance, habitats, collecting methods, and storage; therapeutic uses, constituents, and preparations; potential toxicities and medical contraindications; and, tea-making, tincturing, and salve making.
If you liked this, you'll probably like:
- The Peripheral by William Gibson (2014)
- The Martian by Andy Weir (2014)
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
- Cloud Atlas by David Stephen Mitchell (2004)
- Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead by Barry Barnes (2011)
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008)
- Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust by Neil Gaiman (2007)
- Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey (2012)
- The Leveling by Dan Mayland (2013)
- Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells (2014)
Books by Michael Moore:
- Stupid White Men (2001)
- Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West (2011)
- Dude, Where's My Country? (2003)
- Here Comes Trouble (2011)
