Mountain States Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 100 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness - Paperback

by Briana Wiles (Author)

"A practical guide to using medicinal herbs as well as a powerful reminder of our reciprocal relationship with the natural world." --Rosalee de la For t, author of Alchemy of Herbs

In Mountain States Medicinal Plants, Briana Wiles is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 120 of the region's most powerful wild plants. You'll learn how to safely and ethically forage and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and northern Nevada.

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With their wealth of botanical diversity, the mountain states provide an abundance of healing herbs accessible to all. Whether you are just starting out or are looking to deepen your herbal knowledge, this book is your essential companion for finding, identifying, harvesting, and safely using the most important wild medicinal plants of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, the eastern sides of Oregon and Washington, and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.