The Ultimate Guide to Native American Remedies
I’m excited to bring you a guest post today about a new book that I’m currently reading. What drew me to this book, by Samantha Deere, is that it contains an exhaustive lists of plants that grow in North America and how to use them for the health of your family.
For example, did you know that in 1536, Jaques Cartier boiled pine needles to cure his ship crew from scurvy? I learned that in this book.
I asked Samantha Deere and her team if they could share something from the book with us.
They provided us with a recipe for sage potato soup, along with uses for sage. Let us know in the comments if you try it out!
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Guest post by Samantha Deere:
My book , ‘Herbalist Guide to Native American Remedies’, is about the ancient herbal knowledge of Native Americans used in modern days. It is mainly about finding, processing and using medicinal plants and herbs growing in North America.
The remedies contained in my book have been passed down for generations. They help with a myriad of issues like energy and sleep regulation, anxiety, immunity, beauty, sexual and reproductive health, and much more. As a mother myself, I know about the needs of everyday life. Therefore, I also included first aid remedies and remedies for kids.
One of the most useful ways to use the power of these plants is to include them into our diet.
The recipe below is an example of this. Having 2 children myself I confirm that they loved it.
Interested in more cooking recipes?
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Or into herbal remedies to take care of your family?
Find the book on Amazon. A few things covered in our books include:
- Many uses of Elderberry (including recipes for food and as a healing herb (an easy one: make a syrup)
- Uses of pine needles
- Yarrow with its many benefits for kids and elderly
- basic herbal teas to 1) lower fever, stop bleeding, cold , cough, flu, 2) against toothache, good tooth whitening, 3) painkillers
Click below to download the printable recipe for Sage Potato Soup:
This book is an excellent resource to have on hand.
Our indigenous people have such a profound knowledge of medicinal plants, April. We have so much to learn from them. I’ve often wonder if much has been lost from European colonization. Sounds like a really good book. Sage really is a powerful herb. I have a sage plant myself in the garden. It is nice that it is a perennial, so it come back each year. Hope you are keeping well. 😀🌿
Yes! I downloaded the book and started reading it. It’s long, so I haven’t finished. I was amazed at how much I had no idea about. No idea. Alan was like, “Please tell me the plants that can help headaches!!” The book has a tea recipe for headaches. So much to learn from our indigenous people.
That is tremendous, April.
The potato soup recipe sounds delicious. I have never used leeks before. And until we started getting HelloFresh, I had never used shallots. Now I love them. Sage would be delicious in a potato soup. Can’t wait to try it.
What an attractive book cover. Sounds like an interesting read. I bought Elderberry syrup and used about two drops in a recipe. Now I can’t remember what the recipe was!! But it was delicious!
Thank you for sharing.
It does sound good! Would you believe I’m allergic to sage? So I have to use something else. I got the book though, and it is mind boggling how many uses there are for American plants, stuff that grows here naturally. This is an awesome reference.