Plants of the Cherokee heart Dean Hutchins

Dean Hutchins

this landmark collection carries the listener to the limitless realms of the imagination

Made in Asheville

Reading it aloud was the most comforting

respected Cherokee elder

Plants of the Cherokee heart Dean HutchinsBased on research conducted by William Banks in the 1950s, Plants of the Cherokee describes traditional Cherokee uses for more than 300 plants from medicinals to edibles, natural dyes and more. Banks documented herbal treatments for a huge range of ailments, everything from coughs and colds to rhuematism, diabetes and cancer, at a time when some Cherokee elders still practiced these generations old ways. Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association.