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The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions

by J.T. Garrett Author

J.T. Garrett, a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee from North Carolina, details the healing and medicinal uses for over 450 plants in North America. You learn about the medicine of the Four Directions and which plants are commonly associated with them, traditional tales and teachings of the Cherokee cosmology, and how herbs can be used to treat over 120 ailments.