Medicinal Plants: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Widespread Species (Pocket Naturalist Guide Series)

"In many parts of the world medicinal plants still play an important role in primary health care, and in addition they remain promising sources for lead compounds for new therapeutic agents. This book presents an overview of a series of medicinal plants from the East." --L. Pieters, department of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium

This guide describes how to use common wild plants to help treat injuries and help alleviate internal discomforts. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 80 familiar species of medicinally relevant, widespread trees, shrubs and wildflowers. The plants are sorted into categories of the injuries/ailments they can help to alleviate and also identifies the most commonly encountered noxious plants. Laminated for durability, this one ounce pocket guide provides simplified, essential information for hikers and campers of all ages on how to treat common backcountry maladies with wild plants. Made in the USA.