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Stalking the healthful herbs
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- ISBN: 0911469060
- ISBN: 9780911469066
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: Putney, Vt. : A. C. Hood, 1989, c1966.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: New York : D. McKay, 1966. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Those green things -- What's an herb to do with? -- Wild horseradish as medicine, condiment, and cosmetic -- Witch-Hazel : most familiar of all herbal medicines -- Comforting composites : boneset, coltsfoot, and yarrow -- Wild lettuce : a vegetable tranquilizer -- Medicine and magic from wormwood -- Elecampane, horseheal, or elf dock -- For courage : borage, star-flower, or beebread -- Comfrey, knitbone, or healing herb -- Nature's vitamin pill : the common blue violet -- The fragrant wild mints -- Beating the cats to the catnip -- Those healthful herbs -- Ground-ivy or gill-over-the-ground -- The wild and woolly horehound -- Common garden sage gone wild -- How to have a wild thyme -- Did you ever eat a pine tree? -- Stalking the slippery elm -- The common stinging nettle -- Marsh-marigold or American cowslip -- Goldthread, canker-root, or mouthroot -- Wild carrot, bird's-nest or Queen Anne's lace -- Ginseng : more precious than gold -- How to eat a rose -- Hawthorn or red haw -- The useful chickweed -- The versatile vibumums -- Those marvelous mallows -- Listen to the basswood tree -- Jewelweed or wild touch-me-not -- Medicinal Christmas decoration -- Cleavers or goosegrass -- Great mullein or velvet dock -- Curled dock : weed or fine food? -- What I do with the blaspheme-vine and Indian cucumber -- Jack-in the-pulpit or Indian-turnip -- The odorous skunk-cabbage -- Chufa or nut-grass -- Just how good are wild foods? -- Capturing wild perfumes. |
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirtland Community College Library | QK 99 .U5 G53 1989 | 30775305473861 | General Collection | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Stalking the Healthful Herbs
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Even those who have no intention of combing the countryside for cleavers, slippery elm or velvet dock will welcome the return to print of this 1966 classic guide to American wild herbs for its wealth of knowledge. Many since the late Gibbons ( Stalking the Wild Asparagus ) have written about the medicinal and nutritive properties of indigenous flora, and nouvelle cuisine has domesticated the notion of edible flowers, but the author's good-humored approach to preparing pine tree needles, boiled nettles and similar treats establishes his as a uniquely charming voice in the self-important world of health foods (``I would like to think that it was sheer genius that caused me to get all the proportions right in my first attempt to make this fragrant ambrosia rose petal jam, but I know it was just blind luck''). Gibbons is the quintessential American naturalist, rhapsodic about nature but eminently practical as well--and never above looking for get-rich-quick schemes, as demonstrated by his experiments to produce a chocolate substitute from basswood. Illustrated. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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