Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide

by Kelly Kindscher

Book Overview

The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.

White settlers did learn a few plant-based remedies from the Indians, and a few prairie plants were prescribed by frontier doctors. A couple dozen prairie species were listed as drugs in the U.S. Pharmacopeia at one time or another, and one or two, like the Purple Coneflower,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700605274
• ISBN13: 9780700605279
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 9.0"