Plant & Herbal Remedies

Book review of: Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly Kindscher.

Extensive list of plants used by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).

"A Paper read before the Bathurst and Rideau Medical Association, Ottawa, 20th January, 1886". Reprinted from the Canada Medical & Surgical Journal, March-April, 1886. Describes some of the plants and practices used medicinally.

Elder explains the identification, harvesting, preparation and uses of plants found in south central Saskatchewan. Duration: 11:27.

Elder explains the identification, harvesting, preparation and uses of plants found in South Central Saskatchewan. Duration: 8:17.

Elder explains the identification, harvesting, preparation and uses of plants found in South Central Saskatchewan. Duration: 11:27.

Elder explains the identification, harvesting, preparation and uses of plants found in South Central Saskatchewan. Duration: 11:23.

Elder explains the identification, preparation and uses of plants indigenous to the area around the Piapot First Nation. Duration: 11:38.

Presents information gathered in 1911 and 1912 on plants used to treat various diseases, including commentary by a physician.

Stories of magical species in Mi'kmaq natural history including medicinal and mystical properties of tree bark, roots and herbs.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2006.

Presents a database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers derived from plants.

Discusses the positive effects of a healing garden for addiction patients in treatment centers and at home.

Website with links to: exhibition, interviews, timeline, lesson plans and other resources.

Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.

Discusses two plants indigenous to coastal British Columbia, Springbank Clover and Pacific Silverweed, and outlines their nutritional significance for Native peoples.

World Intellectual Property Organization encourages equitable sharing of benefits derived from local knowledge and practises. Drug companies have frequently exploited Indigenous resources without recognition or compensation.

Describes various plants for medicinal use.

Describes how the people of Groote Eylandt, an isolated island off the coast of Northern Territory, Australia interact with nature.

Describes a series of treatments employing local plants and animals for curing various health ailments.

Reports on the various methods and natural substances used to treat conditions affecting people on this isolated island off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia.

Reports on the various methods and natural substances used to treat conditions affecting people on this isolated island off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp55-73).

Looks at non-timber forest resources including botanical and mycological products and associated services of the forest such as wild food, medicinals and floral greenery, arts and crafts materials, specialty wood products, ethno-botanical teaching and ecotourism. Scroll down to read paper.

Explores the more than 150 plants that are or were used ritually or medicinally smoked or smudged in northern North America.

Public version does not include sensitive information (medicinal/ceremonial details).

Description of the variety of foods the Salish eat, some due to the Salish protecting and re-establishing plants, fish and animals in the wild.

Arid Lands Resource Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2002.

Studies the possible regressive effect of 54 Mexican Indian mecidinal plants on the activation of transcription factor NF-kB.

Knowledge Keeper from Pine Creek, Manitoba talks about harvesting and associated protocols, preparation, and uses of balsam and poplar bark, sage, sweet grass, and wihkes (Black flagstaff root). Duration: 46:14.

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2006.

Teacher's resource for documentary written and directed by Marie Burke about Mary and Ed Louie, two Sqilxw (Okanagan) traditional healers.

Documentary about the work of Mary and Ed Louie, two traditional healers from British Columbia. Duration: 40:04.

Brief description of a garden containing traditional plants planted in the shape of an 80 ft medicine wheel at Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort Totten, ND.

Information from two Nuxalk men, Captain Schooner and Joshua Moody in Chinook jargon, about magic and medicine of plants and animals including negative powers of a "bad box."

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Ethnologist-in-Charge by F. W. Hodge Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region by Melvin Randolph Gilmore Preliminary Account of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado by Earl H. Morris Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery by Jesse Walter Fewkes The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith

Describes traditional health practices using locally sourced ingredients

Brief discussion of medicinal plants and other therapeutic interventions, characteristics and modern perspectives on traditional medicine, and current applications.

How traditional knowledge has been adapted to be used in a high school classroom in the Hartley Bay School. The curriculum is being used as a way for students to learn about their people's ways of knowing, and to be involved in the intergenerational transmission of traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom.

Contends that indigenous cultures accepted disability as a matter-of-fact.

Looks at Johan Turi's books Sámi Deavsttat / Lappish Texts and Muitalus Sámiid Birra showing the changes in traditional healing practices.

Comments on Native American herbal medicine, curing practices, and influences on western medicine.

Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

Discusses social life and customs surrounding food gathered for protein and carbohydrates, fruits and nuts, and plants used for contraception.