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This volume contains a number of herbs beneficial to liver and gall bladder.

Complete descriptions are found for milk thistle and other thistles, artemisia species, yellow dock and other rumex species, toadflax, balmony, spindle tree, centaury, fringe tree, brickellia, speedwell, Oregon grape, Culver's root, celandine, and dandelion.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The lily family can be found in the hot desert to the northern boreal forest. Taxonomists have chiseled away at this remarkable group, but all share the six-petaled flower that led Linnaeus to recognize their commonality.

This book is a thorough review of the traditional uses of the family, as well as modern clinical studies. It covers the immense healing properties of these amazing plants and how humans can utilize these gifts for health and healing.

Adaptogens are herbs that increase the body's ability to reduce response to stress. They are non-specific, and alter our reactivity by balancing the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In turn overactive and underactive hormonal and endocrine functions are returned to homeostatic balance.

Herbs include astragalus, devil's club, eleutherococcus, American ginseng, goji berry, gymnostemma, wild licorice, maral root, prickly spine, wild sarsaparilla, spikenard, rhodiola, and schisandra. Medicinal mushrooms include reishi, artist's conk, and other Ganoderma species as well as cordyceps.

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.

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...

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That is where the fruit is. UNKNOWN.

This volume explored the health and medicinal benefits of fruits that grow in northern climates. Some are indigenous and others introduced. Fruit is derived from the Latin FRUITUS meaning, "to enjoy." Fruit contains a vast variety of compounds that both prevent disease and maintain health and well-being. Modern research has discovered that many of these nutrients are synergistic and surpass artificial vitamins and minerals in both availability and potency. And they taste better

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