How the California basketweavers saved some plants from a dam. Some articles are tough going, some are easy. Every white writer on Indian medicine and herbology has stolen from Vogel ever since. Classic compendium by well-known Native scholar. Vogel uses medical practices as a lens to focus on changing relationships between invading whites and natives, as well as discussing practical and pharmacological bases of plant-based healing and remedies.
Book is organized by condition or problem, listing herbal remedies of various tribes for each.
Last section of the book is more interesting, the plants shown and told about there are usable today. No Indian names. Panti died in 1996, but the school he and Dr. Rosita started continue. The Handbook is a portable field companion with plant ID's. 125 North American herbs covered, kitchen as well as medical.