Using Plants for Healing Author:Nelson Coon Growing along the roadsides and in the woods on North America are many wildings, used for centuries in folk medicine to treat arthritis, asthma,heart disease etc. Here is the only book devoted to these native herbs. It tells about 250 of the principle plants--where to find, identify and what they cure and how. Based on empiric medicine of earlie... more »r generations, esp. American Indians and colonists.« less