Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West

by Margarita Artschwager Kay

Book Overview

Disenchanted with biomedicine and dismayed by its cost, increasing numbers of people are seeking alternative therapies such as the healing plants discussed in this book. Plant medicine is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816516456
• ISBN13: 9780816516452
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Healing with Plants

This book is a thorough cataloguing of how plants were and still are used in medicine by Native American and Mexican culture. The author obtained her information by interviews with patients and pouring through endless articles on the subject. It is a study of ethnobotany in the American and Mexican West that is both interesting and useful, especially to the professional who is treating patients who might also be taking these medicines.