Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

I read this book in December 2019. I rated the book 5 of 5 stars on Goodreads.

'It was easy to doubt it all, the lake so flat and calm, a thing whose secrets would never surface.'

'There was Solomon's seal, which grew like a spine in the ground, with a perfectly circular vertebra for every year of age.'
        -soothe the stomach
        -clear the lungs
        -slacken excessive bleeding during woman's time of the month'

'Sassafras tree, whose leaves were often mitten shaped'
        - chewed into a poultice for poison ivy
        - roots dried and steeped for teas to purify the blood and warm the spirit

Water Hemlock
        - causes the most violent of death - seizures and convulsions
        - "unlike poison hemlock of Europe which shuttled philosophers so gently into the dark"

Rabbit's foot or Spikeweed
        - mix the root with honey to make a cough syrup

Ginseng
        - a root
        - used in teas and tonics
        - digestion, appetite, lethargy, fainting, blood troubles, masculine, vigor

'You know hat makers used to use mercury vapor to size the felt of their hats. Caused all kinds of problems. Amnesia, shyness, even red noses and toes. That's why they say 'mad as a hatter.'

'He could almost see the music erupting from the place as he neared, in bolts of rampant light, white and gold, and there were words too, howled and shrieked and sung.'

'That what you gave into the world came back to you in kind, and you could wear what you were owed like an armor into the darkest times.'