With the expansive wisdom of this trusted guide, learn how to safely and ethically forage—and how to use wild Midwestern plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves.
“This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips.” —Natural Awakenings Chicago In
Midwest Medicinal Plants, Lisa Rose is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using over one hundred of the region’s most powerful wild plants. Plant profiles include:
- Clear, color photographs
- Identification tips
- Medicinal uses and herbal preparations
- Harvesting suggestions
- Lists of what to forage for each season, making the guide useful year-round!
Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Lisa M. Rose is an herbalist and forager with a background in anthropology and a professional focus on community health. Her interest in ethnobotany and herbal medicine has taken her to study plants, people, health, and their connection to place internationally. Rose leads foraging plant walks and teaches classes on edible and medicinal wild plants. She forages for her own family, herbal apothecary, and community herbalism practice.
Preface: Growing an Herbalist
I first turned to the plants for guidance at the age of 30. Although I’d always been a plant person, I’d been working against nature’s cycles and against my own. I was worn out, tired from the cultural stress that I was carrying from running an NGO, being a mom to two small kids, and being a good wife.
A gardener, I was even tolS
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