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This volume covers herbs useful for digestion, assimilation and elimination.

Over thirty medicinal plants are covered in great detail including agrimony, gentian, butternut, elm, fennel, fumitory, goldenseal, goldthread, queen of the meadow, garden rhubarb and more.

Why write a book about medicinal plants and fungi named after the devil?

Was it because one of my favorite musical groups, The Grateful Dead sang, "A friend of the devil is a friend of mine?" NOT REALLY.

Richard Mabey suggested, "the satanic epithets were probably just terms of respectful joshing, as in 'that little devil'." Well, maybe a bit.

Actually, it is because I noted over the years so many plants given this negative rap for no known reason. Associating plants with d(evil) denoted caution, awareness, poison and powerful medicinal properties.

Many of the plants and fungi...

Snake Medicine is a look at traditional and modern usage of venom for health and healing. This involves the use of homeopathic dilutions for physical and mental patterns, as well as molecular patterns for new pharmaceuticals to treat blood clots, cancer, ebola, and hypertension.

This volume looks at plants and fungi that influence brain health. This is a complex subject, as 80% of what we know about the various regions of the brain, the various hormones influence, and how everything interacts, has been identified in last five years.

Herbs include albizia, ashwangandha, bacopa, buffalo berry, burnet, calamus, clubmoss, comb's tooth, daffodil, ice plant, henbane, ginkgo, psilocybe species, snowdrop, velvet bean and more.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. - WILLIAM BLAKE

This book contains an in-depth survey of the healing properties of thirteen hardy northern tree genera.

It contains a wide scope of traditional usage as well as modern scientific benefits for health and well being. It includes spruce, pine, fir, birch, poplar, alder, cedar, maple, tamarack and more.

The book is comprehensive and gives recipes for usage of different tree parts including the bark, root, flowers, buds, leaves, needles, seeds and cones.

Medicinal plants and fungi have been given common names related to farm animals. That is the basis for this offering, and has nothing to do with veterinary medicine.

Found in this book are chapters on cow lily (water lily), cowslip ("Primula" species), cow wheat, and cow parsnip.

Hogweed is included, as well as pig's ears, pigweed and related "Amaranthus" species to round out the porcine segment.

There are goats, including Goat's Beard, and Yellow Goat's Beard, from two entirely different genus, and Goat's Foot from the world of medicinal mushrooms.

We have horses, including...

This book contains a wealth of information on over 50 more medicinal plants in Edmonton Alberta's river valley.

Traditional medicinal uses, are combined with modern scientific herbal application recipes of preparation. Large full color photographs help identify native and introduced plants along the trails of the North Saskatchewan River.

The immune system works in a fine-tuned and balanced environment. Various chronic diseases stem from under or over reactivity.

Herbs covered include amur bark, andrographis, balsam root, black eyed susan, cedar, chicory, Echinacea, fleeceflower, hemp, woad, lomatium, larch, sea buckthorn, self heal, spilanthes, yew, wild indigo, chaga and usnea.

The Bean family is the second most important economic group in the world after the Grass or Poaceae family.

It is rich in a variety of phytochemicals that help treat all manner of health conditions.

The tale of Jack and the Beanstalk is of certain significance. The idea that a bean can be the portal to a magical world is common in popular culture. No surprise there

Rolling in the clover conjures up for many people, sweet, delightful memories. This family is large and varied, containing various beans and peas, but other delights like licorice, alfalfa, caragana, and vetches....