Medicinal Plants & Herbs

Learn to make smudge sticks and to identify, collect, and grow a wide range of sacred plants for smudging. Includes research techniques, sources of potent smudging herbs, information on the use of sacred plants, and more. Harvest also offers valuable advice on how to reclaim lost traditions and find personal healing rituals.

This guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other indigenous people is an excellent tool for those seeking to connect more fully with the mysterious world of plants, animals, and Spirit. For thousands of years plants have been used to heal physical and spiritual ailments.

Listed here are over 400 plants, along with their traditional use and an explanation of the spiritual relationship of the Cherokee people with their environment. Material drawn from conversations with North Carolina Cherokee elders.

Tis Mal Crow (Cherokee/Hitchiti) had worked with tribal elders since childhood studying the medicinal uses of plants and traditional Native root-doctoring techniques. Here he examines common plants of the Eastern woodlands and explains how to identify, honor, select, and prepare them. Illustrated and indexed by plant name and medical topic.