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Recommended Readings |
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Brill, Steve and Evelyn Dean |
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Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants. |
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A true weed walk. Arranged by season, Brill discusses habitats, identification, and preparation of edible wild plants. Dean's illustrations, while in black and white, are marvelously detailed and more often than not identifying characteristics of the plants are indicated and labled. |
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New York: William Morrow, 1994. |
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Christopher, John R. |
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School of Natural Healing. |
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Dr. Christopher's volume is a veritable cornucopia of herb information, formulas, and case studies. The herbs are ordered according to their effects on the human body. I.e.: alteratives, anthelmintics, astringents, etc. The 25th Anniversary edition (hardcover) weighs in at more than 600 pages and makes for a wonderful reference as well as a pleasurable browse. |
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Springville: Christopher Publications, 1976. |
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Cox, Janice |
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Natural Beauty at Home. |
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A cookbook for cosmetics. Cox's recipes and formulas are easy to follow, use readily available ingredients for the most part, and, most important, they work as she says they will. If you haven't already, this is an excellent starting point for the exploration of creating skin creams, lotions, shampoos, astringents, etc. |
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. |
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Foster, Stephen and James A. Duke |
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Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs. |
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This Peterson Field Guide is at once beautiful and useful. Color photographs make herb identification a bit easier. Still, it is never recommended to pick and use unless one is 100% sure. In that the book is a field guide rather than an herbal, many "non-standard" plants are included and this is part of what makes it so interesting. |
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New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. |
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