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Healing Arts Press is a division of Inner Traditions International
Copyright © 2000 by United Plant Savers
Frontispiece: Venus’s-Flytrap © 2000 by Ajana Green
Insert Photographs: Arnica, Black Cohosh, Bloodroot, Blue Cohosh, Calamus Root, Echinacea, Eyebright, American Ginseng, Threeleaf Goldthread, Goldenseal, Helonias, Kava, Pink Lady’s Slipper, Lobelia, Oregon Grape, Partridge-berry Pleurisy Root, Slippery Elm, Spikenard, Trillium, Stoneroot, Roundleaf Sundew, Venus’s-Flytrap, Virginia Snake-root, Wild Indigo, American Wild Yam, and Yerba Mansa © 2000 Martin Wall; Cascara Sagrada, Lomatium, Cultivated Lomatium Seedling, Cultivated Osha Seedling, and White Sage © 2000 by Richo Cech; Osha © 2000 by David Bunting; Pipsissewa © 2000 by Ed Smith; Yerba Santa © 2000 by Deb Soule.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Note to the reader: This book is intended as an informational guide. The remedies, approaches, and techniques described herein are meant to supplement, and not to be a substitute for, professional medical care or treatment. They should not be used to treat a serious ailment without prior consultation with a qualified health care professional.
This book, though compiled by United Plant Savers, represents each author’s personal view of the plant he or she chose to write about. UpS edited for technical accuracy, but not for the authors’ styles or opinions. We feel that the chapters offer a cohesive collection on medicinal plant conservation, but the authors’ opinions are their own and do not always represent the views of UpS.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Planting the future : saving our medicinal herbs / edited by Rosemary Gladstar and Pamela Hirsch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ebook ISBN 978-1-59477-583-3
print ISBN 978-0-89281-894-5 (alk. paper)
1. Medicinal plants. 2. Materia medica, Vegetables. 3. Herbs. I. Gladstar, Rosemary.
SB293 .P53 2000
633.8’8—dc21
00-039573