Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness

by Scott Kloos
published by Timber Press
2017

Our Take

An incredibly thorough guide for identifying, harvesting, and utilizing medicinal plants.

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With its wealth of botanical diversity, the Pacific Northwest provides an abundance of healing herbs accessible to all. Whether you are just starting out or are looking to deepen your herbal knowledge, this book is your essential companion for finding, identifying, harvesting, and safely using the most important wild medicinal plants of Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, and northern California.

In Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants, Scott Kloos is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using over one hundred of the region’s most powerful wild plants. You’ll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include:

*Clear, color photographs, 
*Identification tips
*Medicinal uses and herbal preparations
*Harvesting suggestions

Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and northern California.

Deets

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Timber Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1604696575
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1604696578
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.63 x 1 x 9.13 inches