Alaska's Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North - Softcover

Viereck, Eleanor G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882403222 ISBN 13: 9780882403229

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 1987

Synopsis

This guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, can be used to promote health and healing, use for emergency first-aid care, or to maintain wellness. More than fifty plant species are described with information on habitat and distribution as well as general information on how each one can be used as medicine. This natural history of some of Alaska’s medicinal plants is not intended to serve the purpose of a self-care manual of medicine. Dr. Eleanor G. Viereck presents useful and fascinating information about trees, flowers, and shrubs accompanied by accurately rendered line drawing of the vegetation.

Dr. Viereck tells where to find each plant. She also discusses plant collecting in general and how to brew healthful herb teas. An illustrated glossary, cross-references t therapeutic uses of specific plants, and a thorough biblioraphy completes this valuable contribution to plant lore.

About this title

About the Author:

Eleanor G. Viereck earned a Ph.D in biology from the University of Colorado. She taught courses at the Tanana Valley Campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks on herb lore and holistic health. She is also the co-author of Meditation: The Complete Guide. 

Review:

“Whenever I open it, I find another marvelous tidbit, like Viereck’s description of uses for soft, acidic plant sphagnum, or peat moss, the plant often found chinking the walls of log cabins...”

                         ---Fairbanks News-Miner

About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0882403222
• ISBN 13: 9780882403229
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 116
• Illustrator: Collett Dominique