Dark Psychology: Complete Guide How to Read and Influence People. With more than 300 photos, this new edition shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. This is an excellent book for the information. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. I just Love the Combination of medicinal plants and field guide. He invented the modern 20th century concept of field guides, introducing generations of Americans to the flora, fauna and natural … added to husbands xmas gift - was suggested by amazon to go with the other field guides I purchased. This guide is the most complete work ever written on the medicinal plants of western North America. An updated field guide to the medicinal plants and herbs found in eastern and central North America, including how to identify them and use them. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. More than 530 color photographs illustrate the plants and their flowers, leaves, and fruits. But that is not enough for me to take off a star. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Please try your request again later. A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Foster, Steven, Hobbs, Christopher, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute: Amazon.com.au: Books Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I have the Peterson Guide on Wild Edible plants and that one is the only one of the Peterson Guides that has a few gaps that need filling with other books. I love the book! The EASTERN/CENTRAL GUIDE contains photos for all plants listed and covers the all states east of, but excluding, Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico. He calls many plants "weeds," and is quick to scare one off by calling highly therapeutic plants "toxic." 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Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. An index to medical topics, symbols next to plant descriptions, and organization of plants by colors all make this an essential guide to understanding the traditional medicinal uses of the plants around us. Buy A Peterson Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Hobbs L.AC. Over 700 paintings and drawings reveal subtle field marks that cannot be captured into photographs. Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2016. Lets try and rekindle this almost forgotten information of our ancestors and native forefathers. I like this book because of the (usually) clear and (mostly) accurate pictures, however, it is very obvious that the author is not an herbalist. He lives in Eureka Springs Arkansas, in the heart of the medicinal plant-rich Ozarks. 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