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Drawing upon Native American plant knowledge and keeping extensive medical records, they became self-sufficient in maintaining good health through the use of herbs.
From this modest beginning, born of necessity, the Shakers became the first people in the United States to produce herbs on a scale large enough to supply the pharmaceutical market. Furthermore, their unwavering honesty and workmanship brought herbal medicine to a new level of respectability.
The Shakers were their own best historians and left us a wealth of journals, letters, and publications. Shaker Medicinal Herbs is filled with writings by Shaker herbalists, 19th-century physicians, neighboring farmers, visiting writers, and Shaker sisters and brethern. This edition also contains authentic Shaker botanical drawings, seed labels, catalogs and diary excerpts, plus an illustrated herbal compendium of more than 300 plants, shrubs, and trees the Shakers used medicinally.
As the Shakers' expertise grew, and their herb gardens expanded into vast farms, Shaker catalogs became the principal herb resource for physicians, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry.
The new edition of Amy Bess Miller's classic work Shaker Herbs is a first-hand account of the Shakers' natural evolution as entrepreneurs and healers, and documents their daily work with more than 300 medicinal herbs.
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