Woke me up from reviewer's coma

A review of "Field Guide to Medecinal Wild Plants" 

I downloaded the free sample of this field guide to my Kindle. It's better than its companion volume about edible wild plants, perhaps because it doesn't really pretend to be a “field guide”, let alone a how-to guide. Rather, it’s a mini-encyclopedia with basic information on how various plants were actually used by Native American or early settlers, without any pretensions that the lore is accurate. Not very useful if you want in-depth information on the subject, but could perhaps work as a “teaser trailer” or quick reference guide. Some of these plants are supposedly still used in the Appalachians today. I was intrigued by the Kentucky coffee tree. It must be an incredibly strong coffee substitute, since its powdered form is said to wake people up from a coma! In the end, I give this book three stars.