The prairie was their medicine cabinet

coneflowers 1 1024x476 1

When we look at a field of prairie flowers or walk through a shaded forest, we see the beauty of nature. But before the advent of the corner drug store, our ancestors saw medicinal plants and other homeopathic remedies as nature’s medicine cabinet. In Proving Her Claim, the heroine and her Lakota neighbors use medicinal plants to treat […]