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Artemisia gnaphalodes "pava-hobe", "bav-oh-hobe", "bah-vah-hoe-be", "bav-oh-hobe", "coo-see-pah-wah-zip", "bah-oh-hobe", "coo-see-pah-wah-zip", "koh-see-sah-wah-ab", "pah-vah-sawabe", "coo-see-quatz-oh-bah", "coo-see-pah-wah-zip", "sah-wah-be", "wadz-oh-buh", "suga-lem-lun (W)", "ko-se-wi-up", "womwood" Blood tonic: roots boiled, decoction strained and taken after childbirth. Boils: moist leaves applied as poultice. Childbirth - tonic after: roots boiled, decoction strained, two or three cups taken per day from two weeks to a month. Plant boiled, 1/2 cup of decoction several times a day for two weeks. Constipatio …

Indian medicinal plants, contd: 7. Achillea lanulosa (Yarrow) (S) Dah-wun-gum-beh-toothache medicine While the root of this plant was known as a toothache remedy to this family, they had never tried it, but gave the name. 8. Sericotheca (Rock spirea) (T 3595) (SS) Toya-humbe meaning mountain brush Leaves and stems boiled, strong tea taken internally in portions of about a cup for severe stomach ache. Stems only are boiled, the tea being taken in small doses of les than 1/2 cup regularly every day for a long time in cases of venereal disease. 9. Gilia pulchella (Timpulate) (S) Tim-bah-hay nut-zoo, bad disease medi …

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Train(120) Joe Springer Fallon 1940 page 3 11. Agastache urticifolia (P) Ki-ban pah-quanna-av, or mountain water mint Leaves only used. Fresh leaves mashed, applied to swellings. 12. Angelica sp. (P) Bogo Root dried in sun. Pieces chewed for sore throat. 13. Artemisia spinescens (P) Kuba-tah-cun-oh-quah Leaves and flowers boiled, strained, hot tea taken, 1/2 cup, to stop blood haemorrhages due to consumption. Leaves only, mashed, applied as poultice to swellings and rheumatic joints. 14. Artemisia tridentata (P) Sah-wavy Tops boiled, tea for colds and cough. 15. Ephedra viridis (P) Soo-roop-ee Tea made from boili …

knowledge of wild plants and their uses. Along agricultural lines they have their well established practices, which seem largely to be traditions, and still prepare the ground, plant, and cultivate their corn by the same methods employed before the conquest. Their horticultural practices seem even less clearly defined than those pertaining to agriculture, the production of the great staple crop, corn, naturally receiving more attention than

Washoe Medicinal plants, cont'd: Percy Train page 3 7. Ephedra viridis (Brigham tea, Mormon tea, Jointfir) (w) Mah-gah This plant grows at Dresselerville and is used a great deal as a beverage, but it is also used as a hot tea drink taken as a remedy for cramps in menstruation. 8. Juniperus occidentalis (Mountain Juniper) (w) Puh-ahl Small branches heaped on top of stove or in small campfire and smoke inhaled for headache or head colds. Also burned in houses as a disinfectant after sickness. 9. unidentified (w) Gum-bah-lay-wi-mood-zuck mood-zuck, meaning medicine This root or tea solution made of the boiled root …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected by Mrs. Edith V.A. Murphey at Western Shoshone Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada. August 5, 1937. Following was given by Mr. and Mrs. Billy Shaw, venerable Paiutes. Billy is Medicine Man. Yarrow; "Toazi tonega" Root used for toothache, bit inserted in hollow tooth, and whole plant steeped for tea. Sagebrush and 5397 M 208 "Poverty weed"; "Doot un Zip" (S) Steep all for diarrhea. Standard remedy for eye trouble. Whole plant steeped, used by Paiutes. 5402 M 213 Zygadenus paniculatus "Death Camas"; "Kogi-a-donup" (P) Poison plant for which no good word can be said. 5403 M 214 Quachia Kikasta …

Iva axillaris "durunzip", "too-du-zip", "qued-a-tinup", "idoot-un-zip", "tu-au-zip", "wbee-wha-nut-zoo" (S); "wtoo-ha-babban", "wtoo-dub-tee-naba" (P); "quee-dub-tee-nea" (P); "poverty weed" Blood purifier: plant boiled, decoction taken. Bowels - disorders: plant boiled, decoction taken to stop blood passing. Coughs & colds: upper part of stems and leaves boiled, decoction taken. Diarrhoea: root boiled, decoction taken. Plant boiled, decoction taken. Dysentery: roots boiled, decoction taken. Roots steeped, Eyes - sore: plant steeped, solution used as wash. Itch: leaves moistened, mashed, scrubbed on skin rashes a …

CONSULTA DE EXPERTOS SOBRE LA UTILIZACION Y MANTENIMIENTO DE LOS RECURSOS GENETICOS DE PLANTAS CULTIVADAS EN LA REGION DEL CARIBE Turrialba, Costa Rica, 3-7 de diciembre de 1973 Principales especies de plantas cultivadas, o por introducir, en la region del Caribe 1. CEREALES (a) Especies nativas maiz, Zea mays (b) Especies foráneas arroz, Oryza sativa Oryza glaberrima sorgo, Sorghum bicolor adlay, Coix lachryma-jobi 2. LEGUMINOSAS DE GRANO (a) Especies nativas frijol común, Phaseolus vulgaris botil, Phaseolus coccineus tepari, Phaseolus acutifolius lima, Phaseolus lunatus x darwinianus Canavalia ensiformis

Mike Millett Family... page 4 12. Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) (S) Huh-nabbe Leaves boiled, strong tea taken internally in dose of 1/2 to 1 cup as an emetic and physic. Not used as an external wash here. 13. Dalea (Parosela) polyadenta (S) Mo-gun-du-hu Stems and tops boiled, tea taken for colds and stomach ache. 14. Gilia congesta (S) Be-he-van the nut-zoo, or Quee-dah-nut-zoo the latter term to be used with discretion, because it means evacuation medicine. Used as a physic, by boiling the whole plant and drinking the tea. This family knew pit also was used as a tea taken for venereal disease among the Reese …

Indian medicinal plants, Reese River, Nev. page 3 9. Wyethia mollis (3) Be-ah-ah-kuk Small amount of the roots boiled down, cup taken as an emetic. This was not used often, but occasionally. 10. Osmorhiza occidentalis (Sweet root) (S) Bas-o-wip (S) Tim-bah-hay The Shoshones here say these two names are one for the same plant. It is the venereal diseases medicine in common use here. 1/2 cup of the solution made from boiling the roots, taken over a long period. 11. Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) (S) Donzee-anga The white flower tops of the yarrow boiled in a little water, solution taken in doses of less than half a …

Train Page 3 11. Rumex hymenosepalus (P) Tuha-kono-gip Roots dried, boiled, tea taken for rheumatism. Roots boiled, tea taken for venereal disease. Roots dried, ground fine, applied to syphilitic sores. 12. Rumex crispus (P) Pawia, Pah-wee-ah Ripe seeds ground fine, burned in pan, mixed with pine pitch and eaten to stop diarrhoea. 13. Juniperus occidentalis (P) Wah-pee End twigs boiled, tea taken for venereal disease. Berries boiled, tea cooled, taken in dose of less than 1/2 cup once a day for a week as a blood tonic. 14. Artemisia spinescens (P) Kuba-tah-cun-on-quah Fresh leaves ground, applied as a poultice to …

Alkeheny 1. Botany tadavances 2. Cassava Wednesday evening. 3 Bacteriology 1. Modern study of Botany A. Emphasis on fundamentals of plants useful to man- How to study? 1. Take a look at a lawn-growth pattern that makes it useful - how to keep a lawn healthy - greenkeeper at golf course - use of fertilizers - why use them? why certain ones - what can. 2. Why isn't a broad-leaved plant good for lawn- erect growth, no spread - difference between various kinds of stems - rhizomatous vs erect adventitious roots 3. What makes dandelion such a tough weed to kill - top not dig one out. 4. Why know names of plants - examp …

7 - 4 the psychological effects are the stronger medicine, and the plant substance is merely suggestive. Some of the recent finds among plants that have been dramatic break- throughs in medicines, or promises to be, are drugs useful in the treatment of arthritis, and substances that have proved useful in one or two types of cancer. In the former case, substances known as sapogenins from the roots of a vine, Dioscorea, and other plants have been found to produce a precursor to ACTH which, when properly modified can be used, under proper conditions, to help reduce painful swelling in the joints. Unfortunately, this …

Maggie Jack Group page 5 22. Artemisia tridentata (Big sagebrush) (s) Boh-hoe-be Leaves boiled, tea taken for colds. 23. Clematis ligusticifolia (s) Waha-wanna, Clematis (s) Wee-doe, Plantago Plantago sp. as col. Leaves of Clematis and leaves of Plantago mashed, slightly moistened, applied as a poultice for rheumatic pains and as a drawing poultice. 24. Salvia carmosa (s) Toya-abba-hobe Leaves boiled, tea taken in small amounts of 1/2 cup or less for stomach ache. 25. Leptotaenia multifida. (Cough root) (s) Toh-sup Root boiled, always made up fresh, a little at a time. Tea taken in dose of 1/2 cup when dry and sm …

Indian medicinal information: FOOD PLANTS 1. Scirpus americanus (M) Huhn-a-vow Seeds were gathered when ripe and ground into a meal for food. 2. ZMARISCUS californicum (M) Hock-way Seed of this plant was used as food like above 3. OPUNTIA basilaris (M) Ah-bah Only the old time Indians used the juicy pads of the beavertail cactus as food. The pads were selected in the spring when juicy and distended with sap, the spines rubbed off with grass, and pads either placed in the sun to dry in quantity to use for winter, or placed in shallow pits in the ground and steamed over hot rocks till thoroughly cooked. 4. YUCCA wh …

Indian medicine plants, Upper Reese River, cont'd: page 3 (193) Johnnie McCann Minnie McCann 6. Ligusticum, cont'd: While Osmorhize has many uses among both Paiutes and Shoshones in Nevada, this information claimed that among the women folks of his family the root of Bah-soh-wip was boiled, 3 cup every day, three times a day, of the solution was taken to stop continuous menstruation 7. Aplopappus nana 8. Achillea lanulosa (Yarrow) (S) Timba-wop Tops boiled, 3 cup of the solution taken to stop stomach cramps. (S) Coo-see-pah-wah-zip Bee-wah-nut-zoo The Shoshones appear not to agree on any certain name for this pla …

Nixon, Nevada, page 5 13. Purshia tridentata (Bitterbrush) (P) Huh-nabbe Inside white bark peeled off near base of shrub boiled, taken internally for consumption. Solution also used as an external wash for measles. 14. Veratrum californicum (Blank cabbage) (P) Pah-wy-give Roots mashed, used as a poultice for rheumatic pains, and swellings. Miscellaneous plant names: Lygodesmia spinosa (P) Moh-mu-goop-ah, chewing gum Mountainside (P) Ki-ee-van Lomatia lanata (P) She-shu-va Smilacina liliacea (P) Esha-ton-ub, wolf berry Zygadenus paniculatus (P) See-ga-opi, or Koggi-a-den-up Dondia sp. brown (P) Wah-dah, seeds eate …

… fumes are inhaled. Veratrum californicum Durand "skunk cabbage"; "pahcageebu" (P); "tubessop" (S) H 343, B&S 5 Boils, cuts, swellings, blood poisoning: raw root mashed and used as poultice. Snake bite, or other poisonous bites: use poultice of raw, mashed bulb, or the dry rhizome can be powdered and used as a paste. Severe pain than in the stomach, drink tea from root, should be weak or else will prove emetic. Sore throat or neck glands: rub affected parts with pieces of raw bulb. Birth control: tea from root taken daily will give temporary safety. Verbascum thapsus L. "mullein" H 435 No use reported from Nevada …

Eureka, Nevada Odosiermon repens, cont'd: Paiutes and Shoshones alike know and use this plant medicinally. At Ownee Reservation a drink made of the boiled roots was taken for venereal diseases, also for cough medicine. At Eureka the plant is used only as a medicine for the kidneys, the plant being boiled and tea taken internally. the Colorado state Experiment Station reports the Barberry as having alkaloids with emetic and cathartic properties. 10. Cowania stansburyana (cliff rose) (S) Hub-mobble This shrub grows at Eureka. The informants say they had heard that the wood branches were boiled to make a strong bitt …