TOM BROWN'S GUIDE TO WILD EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANTS by Tom Brown Jnr. 1985 / 234 pages. 

 This is the fifth handbook in the acclaimed series by the director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School. For untold thousands of years, human beings have thrived on the nutritional and medicinal wealth of the plant life in the natural world. In these fascinating, wide-ranging, wonderfully informative stories, Tom Brown tells all about the uncommon benefits of the common trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants we find around us. 'How to use every part of the plant-leaves, flowers, bark, bulbs and roots. Where to find useful plants, and the best times of year and stages of growth to harvest them. How to prepare delicious food dishes, soups, breads, and teas from riches of the great outdoors.' An incredible range of experience-proven medicinal uses to treat headaches, burns, digestive disorders, skin problems, and a host of other maladies.