Medicinal and Mystical Plants

With a video camera staring me in the face, I reached over and picked up a gray-green sprig of wild sage, crushing it between my fingers to release its sharp perfume. I was hunkered down in a patch of tallgrass prairie that windy August afternoon while a local television reporter asked me about my t...

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1. Verfasser: Shay, C. Thomas
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Zusammenfassung:With a video camera staring me in the face, I reached over and picked up a gray-green sprig of wild sage, crushing it between my fingers to release its sharp perfume. I was hunkered down in a patch of tallgrass prairie that windy August afternoon while a local television reporter asked me about my talk at the ninth North American Prairie Conference in nearby Moorhead, Minnesota.¹ Gazing into the lens, I plucked a sprig of green and declared, “This is sage, one of the most widely used medicines in North America.” The sprig in my hand belonged to prairie sagewort,
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv2jtxrp0.13