RECOMMENDED READING LIST
These are just my favorite books. There are many more out there - find the books that best suit your desires and focus. The starred books ( * ) are the ones I use most frequently, or find indispensable.

Field Guides

    Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, Newcomb, Lawrence.*
    Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, Radford, Ahles and Bell.*
    Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary, by Harris and Harris
    Peterson's Eastern Trees, George Petrides*
    A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians, Robert Swanson *
    Shrubs, Trees and Woody Vines of Smokey Mountain Nat'l Park, Arthur Stupka
    The Shrub Identification Book, George Symonds and A.W. Merwin

Wildcrafting and Plant Gathering

    Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West, Michael Moore (also for the "Mountain West")*
    Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants, "Wildman" Steve Brill
    Peterson's Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, Steven Foster et al
    Wild Roots, Doug Elliott (a local)

Medicinal Usage of Herbs

    The New Holistic Herbal, David Hoffmann*
    The Essential Book of Herbal Medicine, Simon Y. Mills*
    All pamphlets by Michael Moore (available on the Internet)*
    Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno*

    Plant Spirit Medicine, Elliott Cowan*
    The Book of Herbal Wisdom, Matthew Wood*
    The Way of Herbs, Michael Tierra
    Medicinal Mushrooms, Christopher Hobbs
    Herbal Medicine, Rudolf Fritz Weiss (Advanced)
    King's American Dispensatory, Felter and Lloyd (Advanced)
    AHPA's Botanical Safety Handbook, McGuffin, Hobbs, Upton and Goldberg*

Traditional Chinese Medicine

    Planetary Herbology, Michael Tierra*
    The Web that has no Weaver, Ted Kaptchuk*
    Energetics of Western Herbs, Peter Holmes
    Between Heaven and Earth, Korngold and Beinfeld
    Herbal Emissaries, Steven Foster and Yue Chongxi

Ayurveda

    The Yoga of Herbs, Dr. Vasant Lad and David Frawley*
    Ayurveda: A Life of Balance, Maya Tiwari*
    Ayurveda: Science of Self-Healing, Dr. V. Lad Prakruti, Robert Svoboda

Western Medical

    Taber's (or Mosby's) Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary*
    Springhouse's Professional Guide to Diseases
    The Merck Manual
    Medical Physiology, Guynton
    Internal Medicine, Harrison
    Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple, 3rd ed., James Olson *
    any good anatomy/physiology textbook*
       

Periodicals

    Medical Herbalist*
    HerbalGram
    Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine

Eco-Consciousness

    Thinking Like a Mountain, John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne Naess
    The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk
    Poetry by Gary Snyder

 

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