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Peterson Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs

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ISBN-10: 0395838061

ISBN-13: 9780395838068

Edition: 2002

Authors: Christopher Hobbs, Steven Foster, Christopher Hobbs

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This guide offers the most comprehensive treatment of medicinal plants of western North America. It includes 500 colour photographs, information on where the plants are found and their medicinal uses, and an index to medical topics covering a wide range of ailments.
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/18/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.25" long x 1.21" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Janet Lynn Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has worked for over 30 years as a healthcare professional. She is also a psychotherapist with many years' experience as a counsellor, group facilitator and supervisor of those involved in supporting the bereaved. She has recently completed research into nursing staff responses to patient death and has published papers on this and related topics.

With more than 40 years of experience in the herbal field, Steven Foster is author, co-author, and photographer of seventeen books. He lives in Eureka Springs Arkansas, in the heart of the medicinal plant-rich Ozarks.

Preface
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
General Organization
Identifying Plants
Uses
Warnings
Conservation and Harvesting
A Final Word of Caution
White or Whitish Flowers
Yellow Flowers
Orange Flowers
Pink to Red Flowers
Violet to Blue Flowers
Green to Brown Flowers
Shrubs
Trees
Woody Vines
Ferns and Fern Allies
Grasses and Grasslike Plants
Glossary
Photo Credits
References
Life List
Index to Plants
Index to Medical Topics