alright so now let's get into some of the bad things about this book. like i said in the beginning, there isn't very many. my least favorite thing, really about this book is the line drawings. these are a lot better than the ones in the peterson field guide though, so i really can't complain much. these drawings have actually helped me to identify a couple plants, that are in the peterson field guide that the picture just wasn't good enough. the description was good; but there were some other plants in the area that looked similar, not necessarily to these but to the plants i was trying to identify. it made it really difficult. you may notice that there aren't drawings for every single plant here.
there's not a drawing for every single plant. so that's something that's kind of a bad thing. it's that you may be looking for something but it may not be in here. now this book generally covers plants that are native to north america, or plants that native americans in this continent used medicinally. now there are a couple exceptions, like dandelion that isn't native to north america. but it is worth mentioning because the indians did adopt it and it is of very valuable medical use. another bad thing i can think of about this book is the plants. now there are a lot of plants in this book. a lot of them you're going to find pretty much everywhere. most of these plants grow all around the country. so that's a good thing but the reason i think it's kind of a bad thing is because there are some other
plants that are really common around where i live, and maybe where you live as well that aren't going to be in this book that have some really good amazing medical uses as well. so that's kind of a bad thing, but not really i guess that just depends on who you are and where you live. you can kind of get an idea there of what plants are in this book and how many there are in this book. i believe there's actually over 100 plants in this book, so i kind of want to talk about that as a bad thing. because it's kind of a lot of information to digest and if you're new to this you really should take your time and read through this book and understand the plants and how they work, their medical definitions, etcetera. alright, now let's talk about why should you have this book, why? why should i buy it?, why shoud you buy it? well you should only buy it if you're interested first and foremost.
but if you really want to learn about medicinal wild plants, you want to learn how to use the plants around that are not only edible but medicinal, this is what you want. this book has helped me to prepare a lot of tinctures, teas, poultices, and salves over the years i've been using it. it's because of this book that i've been able to get to the point to where i am to not have to rely on over the over the counter medications. the peterson field guide to medicinal plants helped quite a bit, mainly with identification. this book really helped me understand a lot of different uses you can cover almost any ailment that you may thinking of with the plants that are in this book. or even an ailment you might possibly have, this book probably covers it.
the only thing i think this book doesn't cover; are things like cysts, some types of cancers aren't mentioned, things like autism and those kinds of things aren't mentioned. other than that pretty much everything else you could think of is in this book. there are some kind of views of the book and here's a nice view of line drawing. so as you can see there are really a lot of reasons why one would want this book. there's a lot of reasons why one would not want this book. so i guess it really boils down to what you think this book's going to help you with and whether or not this book is going to be worth your time. because you can find this book on sale on amazon for around fifteen to twenty dollars.
or you can find it in bookstores for aropund the same price. it's well worth the buy and it's well worth the read. it's also well worth taking your time and making sure you understand it to it's fullest