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Government guide · 1906
Wild Medicinal Plants of the United States
Historical text. This is a 1906 catalog for drug collectors, not a treatment guide. Several plants listed (for example pokeweed, bloodroot and mayapple) are poisonous. Never self-treat with wild plants on the strength of a historical text.
Alice Henkel, a botanist in the USDA’s drug-plant investigations, compiled this bulletin for people who gathered roots, barks and herbs to sell to pharmacies. For each plant it gives the common and botanical names, where it grows, what it looks like, which part was collected and what it fetched.
It is a valuable field reference for identifying North American plants and understanding the pre-pharmaceutical drug trade. Read our note on medicinal plants for the cautions.
- Author
- Alice Henkel
- Published
- 1906, USDA Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletin No. 89
- Topics
- Medicinal Plants, Foraging
- Rights
- Public domain: a work of the U.S. federal government.
- Transcription
- Project Gutenberg eBook #79110