Medicinal Plants of the Heartland

by: Connie Kaye and Neil Billington

A new age is at hand. People are returning to the herbal remedies that were used by their mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers and physicians until the early years of the last century. Many plants that provide the raw material for pharmaceuticals can be found in our own backyards. Of the thousand plants used by the pharmaceutical industry, about half are found growing either wild or cultivated in the United States. Medicinal Plants of the Heartland describes more than 250 of those most often found in the American Heartland. Published in 1997.

Medicinal Plants of the Heartland includes:

• Historical perspective on medicinal plants
• Active components of medicinal plants
• How to collect, dry, prepare and store medicinal plants
  
• 92 color photographs
  
• Descriptions of over 250 wild and cultivated plants found throughout the Heartland including:

• their history and uses by Native Americans
• their active components
• their recommended usage by herbalists
• current research confirming their traditional medicinal usage

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