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Indigenous / Native American

Sacred plant knowledge passed across generations by hundreds of tribes, honoring the deep relationship between land and healing.

North America

History & Philosophy

Origins

Native American healing knowledge spans hundreds of distinct tribal nations across North America, each with its own botanical knowledge and healing lineage developed over thousands of years in relationship with a specific landscape.

Core philosophy

Many traditions share a framework connecting physical healing to spiritual and communal wellbeing — often visualized through concepts like the medicine wheel — where a plant's proper use is inseparable from ceremony, reciprocity with the land, and the healer's own preparation.

Practiced today

Plant knowledge is preserved and taught within tribal communities, often alongside sweat lodge ceremony, seasonal gathering practices, and a renewed movement toward tribal sovereignty over traditional healing knowledge and its documentation.

Herbs, foods & remedies

195 herbs traditionally used within Indigenous / Native American — most often for Digestive Issues, Fever, Wound Healing.

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Indigenous / Native American

History & Philosophy

Origins

Core philosophy

Practiced today

Herbs, foods & remedies

Agrimony (Cherokee)

Alumroot

American Basswood

American Bugbane

American Cranberry Bush

American Feverfew

American Ginseng

American Holly

American Linden Blossom

American Lotus

American Spikenard

Antelope Sage

Apache Plume

Arrowhead (Wapato)

Aspen (Quaking)

Aster (Purple)

Aztec Tobacco

Balsam Fir

Balsam Poplar

Bayberry (Wax Myrtle)

Bear Root (Navajo)

Beaver Poison

Bergamot Mint

Big Sagebrush

Bitterroot (Navajo)

Black Ash

Black Cherry (Wild)

Black Haw

Black Nightshade

Black Raspberry

Black-Eyed Susan

Blackberry Root

Bloodroot

Blue Cohosh

Blue Vervain (Native)

Boneset

Bouncing Bet

Bowman's Root

Broad-Leaf Cattail Pollen

Buffaloberry

Acorn

Agave

Amaranth

Bison Heart

Blue Corn

Buffalo Meat

Buffaloberry (Shepherdia)

Cattail Pollen

Cattail Root (Bulrush)

Cedar Berries

Chia Seeds

Chokecherry

Cranberry

Desert Hackberry (Celtis)

Elderberry

Ground Cherry (Husk Tomato)

Hawthorn

Huckleberry

Jerusalem Artichoke (Sunchoke)

Juniper Berry

Mesquite Pods

Pine Nuts

Prickly Pear Cactus

Pumpkin

Saguaro Cactus Fruit

Salmon

Serviceberry (Saskatoon)

Squash

Sumac Berry

Sunflower Seeds

Tepary Beans

Three Sisters Blend (Corn, Beans, Squash)

Wild Blueberry

Wild Grape (Vitis riparia)