Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness...

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Scott Kloos

Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants

Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness

Scott Kloos

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Timber Press
17 May 2017

Management of land & natural resources; Traditional medicine & herbal remedies; Travel & holiday

An incredibly thorough guide for identifying, harvesting, and utilizing medicinal plants.

Dr. Deborah Frances RN, ND Naturopathic physician, herbalist, author, and lecturer In Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants, Scott Kloos is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 120 of the region s most powerful wild plants. You ll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and northern California.

By: Scott Kloos
Imprint: Timber Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 165mm,
ISBN: 9781604696578
ISBN 10: 1604696575
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 17 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott Kloos is an herbalist, wildcrafter, and medicine maker. He founded and is managing director of the School of Forest Medicine and owns Cascadia Folk Medicine, which supplies high-quality, small-batch herbal extracts from the native plants of the region. Scott also was a founder of the Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews for Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness

An incredibly thorough guide for identifying, harvesting, and utilizing medicinal plants. The inclusion of balanced, open-hearted comments on sustainable wildcrafting, finely individualized to each plant, is laudable. --Dr. Deborah Frances RN, ND Naturopathic physician, herbalist, author, and lecturer A carefully written, easy-to-read, comprehensive, beautiful herbal and plant guide for the Pacific Northwest. --Matthew Wood, MS (herbal medicine), registered herbalist (American Herbalists Guild) This authoritative and heartfelt field guide to Pacific Northwest medicinal plants will spend more time in the field or kitchen than on your bookshelf! --Robin Rose Bennett, herbalist, author of The Gift of Healing Herbs and Healing Magic With the right tools, one can learn how to make teas, tinctures and salves that promote good health, and Kloos makes it easy to avoid the harmful effects of wild plants. --The Herald This is a very complete and up to date book featuring 120 of the most important medicinal plants growing from northern California to Alaska. Written from the heart, this book covers growth habit, plant identification, geographical distribution, medicinal uses, sustainability, preparation, cautions, and wildcrafting. --The Oregonian