Synopses & Reviews
Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants combines two trends: foraging and natural medicine. This comprehensive guide is accessible to everyone, from beginners seeking reliable advice to experienced practitioners on the hunt for new information. Readers will find plant profiles, color photographs, step-by-step instruction for essential herbal remedies, and seasonal foraging tips. This indispensable guide to finding, harvesting, and using wild plants is for readers in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, northern California, and British Columbia.
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"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
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"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)
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"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
About the Author
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, OR.