"Collected here are insightful tips and detailed descriptions relating to the edibility and healing potential of more than one hundred wild plants. Drawing on expansive personal experience as well as more than a thousand scientific and ethnobotanical studies, author Matthew Alfs offers tips on foraging for and identifying the plants growing in the fields, meadows, and woods of the Midwest. He provides detailed lists of plants for specific physiological functions and offers instruction for processing the plants to maximize their edible and medicinal properties"--Page 4 of cover.

The art of wild-plant foraging -- Health, medicine, and weds -- Field guide and description of plant uses -- Appendix : Physiological actions of the plants -- Appendix : How to make herbal preparations at home.