Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide Kindscher KellyPaperback
Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide Kindscher KellyPaperback The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. A couple…
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide Kindscher KellyPaperback
The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. A couple dozen prairie species were listed as drugs in the U.S. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.White settlers did learn a few plant-based remedies from the Indians, and a few prairie plants were prescribed by frontier doctors.
Their familiarity with the plants of the prairie was comprehensive--there probably were Indian names for all prairie plants, and they recognized more varieties of some species than scientists do today. Pharmacopeia at one time or another, and one or two, like the Purple Coneflower, found their way into the bottles of patent medicine.But in both the number of species used and the varieties of treatments administered, Indians were far more proficient than white settlers. Their knowledge was refined and exact enough that
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