Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives
Subtitle: a compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants
By: by Ann Garibaldi.
Publisher: Alaska Natural Heritage Program, Environment and Natural Resources Institute, University of Alaska Anchorage
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Alaska.; Indians of North America -- Medicine -- Alaska.; Traditional medicine -- Alaska.; Eskimos -- Medicine -- Alaska.; Eskimos -- Ethnobotany -- Alaska.; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Alaska.; Ethnobotany -- Alaska.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-197) and indexes.
"This book is a comprehensive collection of traditional medicinal plant knowledge gathered from literature sources. It is not intended to be a guide book or 'how-to' for using medicinal plants. It is, however, designed to be a tool for referencing traditional Alaska Native uses of healing with plants and provides baseline data for communities wishing to further enhance their knowledge of cultural plant usage"--P. 1.
Table of contents: title: Trees and shrubs; title: Herbs; title: Grasses and sedges; title: Ferns and fern allies; title: Mosses and lichens; title: Fungi; title: Seaweeds and algae; title: Miscellaneous references; title: P.S. (postscript information); title: Supporting information.