Native American medicinal plants
Subtitle: an ethnobotanical dictionary
By: Daniel E. Moerman.
Contributors: Moerman, Daniel E.
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 799
ISBN-13: 9781604690354; 9780881929874
Subjects: Medicinal plants -- North America -- Dictionaries; Materia medica, Vegetable -- North America -- Dictionaries; Indians of North America -- Medicine -- Dictionaries; Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Dictionaries; Ethnobotany -- North America -- Dictionaries; Indians, North American -- North America -- Dictionary -- English; Plants, Medicinal -- North America -- Dictionary -- English; Ethnobotany -- North America -- Dictionary -- English
Genres: Dictionaries.; Dictionary
Description: In Native American Medicinal Plants, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes. Information--adapted from the same research used to create the monumental Native American Ethnobotany--includes 82 categories of medicinal uses, ranging from analgesics, contraceptives, gastrointestinal aids, hypotensive medicines, sedatives, and toothache remedies. Includes extensive indexes arranged by tribe, usage, and common name. --from publisher description.
Notes: Abridged version of: Native american ethnobotany / Daniel E. Moerman. c1998.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Plant use by Native Americans; title: Plants used as drugs; title: Appreciating the common knowledge of our past; title: Sources of information on plant usages; title: Drug usage categories; title: Native Americans; title: Organization of the information in Native American medicinal plants; title: Scientific plant names; title: Common plant names; title: Ethnobotanical information; title: Catalog of plants.