Held by the Land (eBook)

A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness

Leigh Joseph (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
208 Seiten
Wellfleet Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-7470-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Author Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge.Plants can be a great source of healing as well as nourishment, and the practice of growing and harvesting from trees, flowering herbs, and other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land.The Indigenous Peoples of North America have long traditions of using native plants as medicine as well as for food. Held by the Land honors and shares some of these traditions, offering a guide to: Harvesting herbs and other plants and using them topically North American plants that can treat common ailments, add nutrition to your diet, become part of your beauty regime, and more Stories and traditions about native plants from the authors Squamish culture Using plant knowledge to strengthen your connection to the land you live on Early chapters will introduce you to responsible ways to identify and harvest plants in your area and teach you how to grow a deeper connection with the land you live on through plants. In the plant profiles section, common plants are introduced with illustrations and information on their characteristics, range, how to grow and/or harvest them, and how to use them topically and as food.Special features offer recipes for food and beauty products along with stories and traditions around the plants. This beautiful, full-color guide to Indigenous plants will give you new insights into the power of everyday plants.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Activities • American Indian • Ancient • apothecary • Autumn • balm • beauty regime • Benefits • Bible • BIPOC author • Book • botanist • common ailments • common maladies • Connection • connect with the earth • Cultures • dictionary • dispensatory • Earth Day • edible • Encyclopedia • ethnobotanist • ethnobotany • ethobotanical traditions • Everyday • Fall • Field • Floral • Forage • Four Directions • full-color • Gardening • Gift • Green • grow • guide to Native American plant medicine • Handbook • Harvest • harvesting herbs • Healing • healing arts • helpful • herbal • herbal benefits • homesteading • how to grow • Ideas • Illustrated • Indigenous Peoples Day • Land • living landscape • Medicinal • medicinally • Meditations • Mental help • Nation • National Day for Truth and Reconciliation • Native American • native american heritage month • NATURAL • natural cures • North America • nourishment • Nutrition • Oil • Orange Shirt Day • Pacific Northwest • People of Color • physical help • Planting • Power • Powerful • Preparation • present • Range • Rebuild • Recipe • refresh • Regions • remedy • Research • Rituals • Salve • skincare • SPIRIT • Spring • Squamish • stereotypes • Stories • Strength • survival garden • sweetgrass • Tea • teachings of plants • thanksgiving • Traditions • Tribe • Tribes • turtle island • Wellness • Wild • wisdom
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-7470-8 / 0760374708
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-7470-2 / 9780760374702