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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There is not much else to say,...

This book is all about insects, and their medicinal contributions. It also contains a few plants that eat insects, and their use for health and healing. It is far from complete, and deals mainly with insects found in northern North America, where I reside.

Ants, bees, wasps, grasshoppers, spiders, dragonflies, slugs, maggots, butterflies, moths and numerous other insects contain compounds used in herbal medicine. Bees, for example, give us propolis, royal jelly, honey, and pollen- all prized for promoting health and well being.

I am an ethnobotanist and herbalist, so apologize in...

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...