OUR APPROACH
About Folk Herb
A grandmother’s teaching—that the earth can tend what ails us—sits next to a clinician’s warning: delay can kill. This guide holds both.
Whose knowledge
Cherokee and other Eastern woodland plant uses included here come from published ethnobotany and Appalachian household practice. Living protocol belongs to knowledge keepers. Nothing here is a ceremony, a tribal formula, or a substitute for speaking with an elder who holds that lineage.
What “research” means
Evidence labels should follow conservative readings of clinical literature and authoritative health sources. Traditional use is labeled traditional. Mixed or thin trials are labeled limited. Nothing is labeled a cure.
Food before foraging
Most people should begin with ordinary foods and cultivated teas. Medicinal mushrooms should be cultivated foods or commercial extracts. Wild gilled mushrooms are never a beginner project.
What this is not
- Not a doctor, pharmacist, or diagnostic tool
- Not a replacement for emergency care or prescribed treatment
- Not a foraging license
- Not a claim to represent any Indigenous Nation