Native American Herbalist Bible: A Handbook of Native American Herbs Usage in Modern Day Life and Recipes for Aliments

By Pakuna Mausi

Do you want to learn about the secrets of Native Americans?

Do you want to know about the healing power of Native American Herbs?

Do you want to know how and herbs Native Americans used to heal diseases?

Then Keep reading! Native Americans have employed herbs for thousands of years to balance their lives and their environment, as well as to cure their bodies and cleanse their spirits.

According to oral traditions, people learned about the therapeutic properties of herbs and other plants by observing ill animals.

Before the initial interaction between Europeans and the tribes, there were no documented records of herbal usage by the Native Americans of America.

But this began to alter when Native Americans taught the new immigrants how to employ nature's remedies.

Native American herbal knowledge provided a vital basis for creating a new country at an age before antibiotics and understanding the origins of infectious illnesses.

They often gave explorers and settlers herbal remedies that proved essential to their survival throughout the 1800s as westward expansion exposed Americans of European heritage to new environments and the expected illnesses and injuries.

This book will reveal all the secrets of Native American herbs, it includes:

• Modern use of Native American Herbs

• Native American Herbs history

• Herbs Lists and Uses

• Recipes of Native American Herbs for Healing We have split the book into three parts to support your comprehensive journey.

This first section will offer a thorough theoretical introduction to Native American medicine and the preparations and procedures used for herbal medications.

The second section is a highly useful field guide since it covers all the essential plants used in conventional Native American medicine and contemporary uses, dosages, and locations.

The third section provides straightforward herbal treatments for typical illnesses that a beginning naturopath may face.

Even the most seasoned herbalist will find it useful as a starting point for developing their method of caring for themselves and others.

So what are you waiting for?

Click on the buy button to grab your copy and start making natural remedies with Native Americans Herbs at home!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9791221429947

Book preview

Introduction

We live in a world where we can find treatment for almost every illness or affliction. Small, apparently unimportant flowers and herbs, plants that we overlook, and trees whose names we don't even try to learn to flourish in our woods, meadows, plains, and gardens.

However, they hold the secret to a more advantageous, healthy, and sustainable way of living. More in touch with nature than we can fathom, our ancestors knew this and used nature's gifts wisely and deliberately to cure themselves and become stronger.

That information has been lost. The extent of Native American understanding of plants and their therapeutic properties has only recently come to light due to a resurgence in interest in botanic medicine, which began in the 1970s. Researchers have rediscovered compounds that Native Americans have known about for hundreds of years, in addition to helping herbalists, doctors, and scientists.

The entire guide to Native American plants, this book includes recommended dosages and uses for both traditional and contemporary uses. A collection of quick and easy recipes for the most prevalent illnesses rounds out the book.

If a simple, all-natural answer is just outside your door, you do not need to jeopardize your body's delicate natural equilibrium by using pharmaceuticals and prescriptions. Carefully gather or produce your herbs, get to know your body and what works best for you, and interact with the natural world around you, and you will inadvertently revive a culture that has been denigrated for far too long.

This book will show you how to locate and use herbs like the original American tribes did: from the forest to your herbalist table, but you'll need to figure out how to listen to your body and the nearby plants.

We have split the book into three sections to support your comprehensive journey. This first section will offer a thorough theoretical introduction to Native American medicine and the preparations and procedures used for herbal medications. The second section is a highly useful field guide since it covers all the essential plants used in conventional Native American medicine and contemporary uses, dosages, and locations. The third section provides straightforward herbal treatments for typical illnesses that a beginning naturopath may face. Even the most seasoned herbalist will find it useful as a starting point for developing their method of caring for themselves and others.

Chapter 1: Native American Traditional use of Herbs

Objective: The objective of this chapter is to give the reader a detailed view of Native Americans and their usage of Herbs and how they gave information about the herb's healing process to the modern world.

1.1 Native American and Their Traditional Cure

Native Americans have employed herbs for thousands of years to balance their lives and their environment, as well as to cure their bodies and cleanse their spirits. According to oral traditions, people learned about the therapeutic properties of herbs and other plants by observing ill animals. Before the initial interaction between Europeans and the tribes, there were no documented records of herbal usage by the Native Americans of America. But this began to alter when Native Americans taught the new immigrants how to employ nature's remedies.

Native American herbal knowledge provided a vital basis for creating a new country at an age before antibiotics and understanding the origins of infectious illnesses. Every American student knows that Indians offered early colonists local foods to save them from starving, but it is less commonly known that Indians also gave plants to help them survive sickness, injury, nutritional deficiencies, labor problems, and other illnesses. Native plant remedies for diseases including rheumatism, constipation, lung issues, burns, and snakebites were initially utilized by Indians and adopted fairly early by American physicians. A few of the plants the Native Americans gave the colonists and pioneers included witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) to relieve sore muscles, balsamroot salve (Balsamorhiza sagittata) to treat flesh wounds, red trillium root (Trillium erectum) to lessen pain during childbirth, blue cohosh as an antispasmodic, and black cohosh as a female and pregnancy.

Native Americans often gave explorers and settlers herbal remedies that proved essential to their survival throughout the 1800s Americans of European heritage to new environments and the expected illnesses and injuries. Some of our greatest explorers, fur trappers, physicians, and naturalists—including M. Lewis and W. Clark, P. Kalm, Jedediah S Smith, L. McPhail, and William Bartram—have written about learning about and using native plants to treat illness and wounds from American Indians in their journals.

The miners' food during the California Gold Rush consisted of bacon, beans, and coffee. As a result, they began to exhibit signs of scurvy. The Sierra Nevada foothill tribes then introduced them to Claytonia perfoliata, an edible shrub that helped them recover their health. After it was discovered to be high in vitamin C, this plant earned the name miner's lettuce. Native plants like sassafras partridgeberry, dogwood, tulip trees, and the leaves and bark of white oaks provided field surgeons with a variety of treatments to treat wounded soldiers during the Civil War; they wouldn't have known that these

Native Americans were not the only source of herbal medicine for European settlers in the New World. They carried cuttings and seeds of their favorite medicinal plants with them since they benefited from a strong European herbalist tradition and were unaware of the benefits of plants native to the New World. They utilized horehound (Marrubium vulgare) to cure coughs and colds, eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis) to heal inflamed eyes, and St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) as an anti-inflammatory. Because of their expertise with the therapeutic properties of plants, they sought out Indian herbalists and gladly incorporated the native plants they learned about into their medicine cabinets.

Similar to how Old World species introduced to American coastlines quickly spread across Novel World ecosystems to produce new biological combinations, medicinal plants of native and