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First Nations and natives of North America classified medicinal plant according to energetics of animals.

Bear medicine, for example, is related to Bear Root ("Hedysarum alpinum"), Osha, Angelica root, and Lomatium ("Lomatium dissectum"). These are brown, furry, oily plants that bears seek out in spring after hiberation. Burdock, an introduced herb, could be included in this group, as the genus name Arcticum is from the Greek, meaning Bear. Bearberry ("Arctostaphylos uva-ursi") literally means grape of the bear.

Bear medicine is useful for building up reserve energy via the adrenal...

The lymphatic system contains three times more fluid than blood. It has no means of movement save the rhythmic diaphragm and yet bathes every cell in our body with nutrients.

This volume will look at herbs that address lymphatic congestion, lymphoedema, and the importance of tonsils, appendix, spleen, and Peyer's patches. These include alder, cleavers, blue flag, soapwort, bogbean, moonseed, red root, figwort, forsythia, ocotillo, pokeroot, pipsissewa, stillingia, sweet clover and bittersweet.

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.

Before flowering plants, the earth was dominated by so-called, more primitive vegetation. Plants and fungi moved from the oceans onto land and created symbiotic relationships that continue today.

The medicinal uses of ferns and their allies, including horsetail, clubmoss, liverworts, mosses and lichens is poorly explored.

In this volume you will find a plethora of reasons to appreciate and utilize these ancient healing remedies.

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...

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 journey of a western herbalist is unique, and personal. And yet, there are common themes of discovery, re-awakening and healing.

This volume introduces basic concepts and understandings of plant medicine, and may help the budding herbalist on their individual journey.

This volume concentrates on the female reproductive system, with a plethora of herbs that assist in "normalizing" the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and childbirth, and both peri-menopause and the crone stage of life.

Herbs include pulsatilla, angelica, baneberry, black cohosh, trillium, chasteberry, raspberry, dead nettle, fairy candelabra, gromwell, partridge berry, peony, pond lily, gromwell, rose, shepherd's purse, crampbark, vervain and more.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

This oft cited quote is only partially correct.

All the plants in this book, according to the weed act of alberta, are prohibited and noxious weeds. They are banned in many other provinces and states as well.

But they do have virtues They all contribute to our well being in ways you will discover in these pages. I think it is important to understand what industrial agriculture means by the term "noxious weed." They mean a plant that interferes with agri-business and therefore requires...