native american medicine

Provides a guide to more than one hundred herbs, including ginseng and ginkgo biloba, and their uses according to Native American tribes, and contains a guide to making herbal remedies for everything from pain relief to nervousness.

Author recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans in his search for new medicinal plants.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that present information on shamanic powers that have been observed among the Native Americans, focusing on the sacred traditions, the names and results of various medical ceremonies, and famous shamans.

Profiles twelve Native American healers, born between 1809 and 1958, who devoted their lives to practicing the art of traditional and non-traditional medicine, and includes an overview of early American Indian medicine and a bibliography.

Provides information about the history, habitat, identifying characteristics, and uses of over one hundred medicinal wild plants found in North America, arranged alphabetically, and including individual color illustrations.

Explains the Native American philosophy of medicine, examines the practices of shamans, medicine men, and other healers, discusses their use of herbs and plants to cure basic illnesses and injuries, and looks at other healing methods.