Southeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 106 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness - Paperback

by Coreypine Shane (Author)

Wildcraft Your Way to Wellness

In Southeast Medicinal Plants, herbalist CoreyPine Shane is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 106 of the region's most powerful wild plants. Readers will learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines, including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the guide useful year-round.
Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

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With its wealth of botanical diversity, the Southeast provides an abundance of healing herbs accessible to all. Whether you are just starting out or are looking to deepen your herbal knowledge, this book is your essential companion for finding, identifying, sustainably harvesting, and safely using the most important wild medicinal plants.

Author Biography

CoreyPine Shane is founder of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in Asheville, North Carolina. CoreyPine been an herbalist for 25 years, and he trained at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine, the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine (under noted herbalist Michael Moore), and the Institute of Chinese Herbology. He has spent the past 20 years seeing clients, teaching classes, and traveling for lectures. He has explored the southeast extensively, identifying and harvesting plants from the wild for his herbal extract business, Pine's Herbals.