“We say, whatever a rabbit nibbles, you can smoke.” Cheyenne

Smoke Plants of North America
A Journey of Discovery
M. R. Ross
192 pp.
Paperback—5¼ x 7¼
13 b&w plant illus.

Smoke plants? As in… you smoke them? Yes. Most of us are familiar with only two plants to smoke—tobacco and marijuana. However, the author introduces over 150 plants that have been smoked for medicinal, spiritual, and recreational purposes in Native American and Western herbalist traditions.

The author’s experiences in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma led her on the journey to learn more about smoke plants. She discovered that they were non-addictive, legal and that several of them helped lift depression, reduce anxiety, calm nerves and relieve insomnia. Others helped reduce the craving for tobacco and marijuana.

In her research, she was confirmed in her own exeriences by the Diné (Navajo) herbal tradition that you ingest herbs to heal the body and you smoke them to heal the mind.

In this book you will discover:
· Over a dozen smoke mix recipes
· The original spiritual purpose of smoking
· A guide to gathering over 50 smokable wild plants
· Over 150 smoke plants, many traditionally used by the Navajo, Iroquois, Cherokee, Hopi, Cowasuck and other Native Americans

This edition contains 13 beautiful black and white line drawings of plants by the renowned naturalist illustrator, Ron Dilg. His work is available for purchase in the Art Catalog.

M. R. Ross has explored the use of herbs and wild plants in India, Mexico, Hawaii, the American Southwest, and the Cherokee Nation. She now lives in a former mining town on the side of a mountain that overlooks a verdant, desert valley with the red rocks of the Mogollon Rim in the distance.