Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West

Description

By Michael Moore
Trade Paperback Book
ISBN 9780890135396
359 Pages

In Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West Michael Moore, renowned herbalist, teacher, and author of several medicinal plant books, presents a one-of-a-kind guide to over 300 species of plants geographically ranging from Baja California to Alaska. This uniquely attractive book educates the reader to both native and introduced species within this region. With over eighty line drawings, forty-four color photographs, maps, and a glossary, this book contains clear and reliable information on:

• identification and safe use of the plants
• appearance, habitats, collecting methods, and storage
• therapeutic uses, constituents, and preparations
• potential toxicities and medical contraindictions
• tea making, tincturing, and salve making

About the Author:

Michael Moore is the author of numerous classic works on the herbal plants of the West and Southwest, including Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West (MNMP). the companion guide to Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West, as well as a host of clinical herb manuals, including Herbal Materia Medica, now in its fifth edition. He opened his first herb store, in Encino, California, in 1974, now Herbs Etc. of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is founder and director of Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, in Bisbee, Arizona. In Bisbee he continues his work as a writer, researcher, therapist, and teacher to professional herbalists.

Praise for Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West

“If you like your herbal medicine with a proper amount of scientific terminology, a dollop of dry humor, a salting of opinionated pronouncements, and a dash of high jinks, Michael Moore’s latest book, Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West, is just your cup of brew. West Coast herbalists, naturalists, and wildflower enthusiasts will find renewed appreciation for the plants of their bioregion from even a cursory reading of this deeply detailed work. Makes me want to move West.”

-Susan Weed, Wise Women Herbal for the Childbearing Years