In Southeast Medicinal Plants, herbalist CoreyPine Shane is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 106 of the region's most powerful wild plants. Readers will learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines, including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, colour photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season make the guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
CoreyPine Shane is the founder of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in Asheville, North Carolina. CoreyPine has been a herbalist for 25 years, and he trained at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine, the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine (under noted herbalist Michael Moore), and the Institute of Chinese Herbology. He has spent the past 20 years seeing clients, teaching classes, and travelling for lectures. He has explored the southeast extensively, identifying and harvesting plants from the wild for his herbal extract business, Pine's Herbals.