The boreal herbal : wild food and medicine plants of the North / Beverley Gray.
This is about understanding our interconnection with the natural world through the exploration of wild food and medicine plants in the northern landscape. By its definition, a 'herbal' is a book that combines information on botany, medicine, and traditional lore. This book is part plant-identification guide, and part medicine- and food-making guide. It includes recipes for use at home and for use while traversing the wild lands of the boreal forest. It features plants found in remote stretches of the wilderness and common 'weeds' that grow around our homes, gardens, and recreational areas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780986827105
- ISBN: 9781896445564
- Physical Description: 440 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press, [2011].
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Content descriptions
General Note: | "A guide to harvesting, preserving and preparing"--cover. Co-published by: CCI Press. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Getting Started ; 2. Herbs: Arnica ; Bearberry ; Bedstraw ; Wild Chamomile ; Chickweed ; Red Clover ; Coltsfoot ; Dandelion ; Devil's Club ; Dock ; Fireweed ; Gentian ; Goldenrod ; Horsetail ; Labrador Tea ; Lamb's Quarters ; Lungwort ; Mint ; Stinging Nettle ; Wild Onion ; Plantain ; Rhodiola ; River Beauty ; Rose ; Wild Sage ; Shepherd's Purse ; Mountain Sorrel ; Sheep Sorrel ; Strawberry Blite ; Sweetgrass ; Twinflower ; Valerian ; Yarrow -- Berries: Blueberry ; Cloudberry ; Cranberry ; Highbush Cranberry ; Currants ; Juniper ; Mossberry ; Raspberry ; Saskatoon Berry ; Soapberry ; Strawberry -- Trees: Alder ; Trembling Aspen ; Birch ; Subalpine Fir ; Lodgepole Pine ; Balsam Poplar ; Spruce ; Tamarack ; Willow -- 3. Medicinal Preparations: Herbal teas -- Tinctures, Vinegars, Elixirs and Bitters -- Syrups -- Capsules -- Plant Essences -- Topical Treatments -- Essential Oils and Hydrosols -- Boreal Baths and Steams -- Getting Wild in the Kitchen: Cooking with wild foods -- Raw juices and smoothies -- Muffins, Biscuits, and Pancakes -- Jam, Jellies, Chutney, and Topping Syrups -- Sauces and Dressings -- Soups and Salad -- Main Courses and Sides -- Desserts and Sweet Treats -- 4. Starting up a Non-timber Forest-products business -- 5. Herbalists through the ages -- The Celtic Tree alphabet -- Botany Basics -- Botanical Terms -- Understanding herbal constituents and phytochemistry -- Medicinal actions of plants. |
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Subject: | Medicinal plants > Canada, Northern. Medicinal plants > Canada, Northern > Identification. Materia medica, Vegetable > Canada, Northern. Herbals > Canada, Northern. |
Genre: | Guidebooks. Field guides. |
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- Johns Hopkins University Press
The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North is an indispensable guide to identifying and using northern plants for food and medicine. Whether you're hiking in remote areas or gardening in your backyard, this easy-to-use handbook will help you recognize and use fifty-five common wild plants that have extraordinary healing properties. With the Boreal Herbal, you will learn how to soothe pain with willow, staunch bleeding with yarrow, treat a urinary-tract infection with bearberry, and create a delicate and uplifting skin cream from sweetgrass. There are also dozens of healthy and delicious recipes, including Wild-Weed Spanakopita, Dandelion Wine, and Cranberry-Mint Muffins.
⢠Profiles of dozens of herbs, berries, and trees found in the northern boreal forest, including information on their habitat, harvest times, medicinal applications, as well as food uses, cosmetic uses, and spiritual uses.
⢠Full-colour photographs and botanical illustrations of each plant profiled in the book for easy identification
⢠Instructions on how to gather and preserve wild plants
⢠More than 200 recipes: teas, tinctures, powders, flower essences, topical treatments, beverages, jams and jellies, baked goods, soups, entrées, and much more
⢠Safety tips for harvesting and using edible and medicinal wild plants, including information on calculating dosage and plant-specific cautions
⢠A resource section for people interested in starting up a non-timber forest-products business
⢠Botanical and medicinal glossaries, and index, and handy reference charts