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Report by Mrs. E. Murphy on Indian uses of Plants. Numbers refer to pressed specimens. P. stands for Patute, & for Shoshone. This information was collected at Schurz, Nevada. Page 1. Common name. Indian name No. Use. Alyssum, white, "Pah-munh" P. M69. Cook. Eat it. Balsam Root, Gum "An-Nerh" P. M12. Seeds used as food. Blazing Star "Ku-Ha" P. M44. Porridge made of seed after pound. Bitter Root "Ka-Nez-Then" P. Root boiled for food. Pounded up for medicine. Ft. Meadermitt. Buckwheat, Wild "Ye-Duts" P. M10. Green Leaves used raw food. Centaurea coronopifolia. None. Whole plant boiled for cramps. Columbine, "Pha-wha …
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Basic food plants- 1. What are our interests? Kinds of plants used take a good American meal as an example - Steak dinner - start with an appetizer, then the potato salad soup, entree, vegetables, drink, desert - with ice. What is provided - basically Carbohydrates, proteins, fats. Most food plants provide some of each Carbohydrates (Cereals) -> carbohydrates Sugars, starches, -> side products - oils, proteins Types of cereals - 1. Wheat - Triticum aestivum - many 2. Rice - Oryza sativa - etal. 3. Corn - Zea mays 4. Barley, Rye, Oats, Sorghum Millets - several kinds 5. Buckwheat - Other grasses of which - Sugarca …
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time they will remain fresh and colorful after cutting. Kinds of Plants Used as Ornamentals From the foregoing discussion it should be evident that almost any plant can be used as an ornamental. Even mosses, without true stem and leaf, are employed in ornamental plantings, particularly in some Japanese gardens. Ferns are frequently used as decorative plants in shaded or moist areas. The coniferous plants (gymnosperms) are favorites used by nearly all peoples, from the coldest to the warmest parts of the earth. In the temperate zones,
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Page 2 Artemisia tridentata Eye wash: leaves steeped, solution used. Feet - sore: tops placed in quantity in large tub, heated in water, aching and swollen feet soaked several hours. Fever: leaves boiled, 1/4 cup of decoction taken, used also to produce sweating. Flu: leaves boiled, decoction taken. Tops boiled, first water discarded, second decoction taken several times a day. Fumigant and deodorant: branches burned on top of stove to freshen the air after illness, as stems burned on top of stove. Hair & scalp: leaves used as a hair wash. Tea is made which is used for falling hair. Headache: leaves boiled, decoc …
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Artemisia tridentata "bawhoben", "wah-gup-ee", "mah-vah-hoe-bee", "nsawabae", "pahoben", "pah-hoe-bee", "mba'habeen", "mbab-hube", "mbaliopie", "bah-hoe-bee", "mboh-ombi", "bah-guh-yoom", "boh-hobe", "pah-wawvy", "sah-wa-ban", "sah-wah-bee", "da-bel" (W); "pah-eesh sawavy" (evergreen sagebrush) (P&;S); "mbig sagebrush", "nsawabae", "sa-wa-ban", "nsagebrush" Antiseptics: leaves boiled, decoction used as a wash. Tops and leaves boiled, decoction used as a wash. Leaves boiled, warm decoction used as soothing wash. Baby powder: old black leaves crushed, powder used for baby rash. Dry leaves ground to a smooth powder. …
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Achillea lanulosa Fever - to reduce: leaves boiled, decoction used as a wash. Gas pains: root boiled, decoction taken. Gonorrhoea: plant boiled, decoction taken, also used as a bath. Headache: green plants crushed and smelled. Leaves boiled, decoction taken in dose of less than one teaspoonful at a time for several hours. Leaves washed, used as a poultice on head. Leaves boiled, decoction taken. Kidney: root boiled, decoction taken. Laxative: roots boiled, decoction taken. Liniment: plant boiled, decoction used. Muscles - sore: tops boiled, decoction rubbed on muscular pains. Neuralgia: root boiled, hot decoction …
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Balsamorhiza sagittata "ikosiaak", "ku-su-ak", "mah-kuk", "coo-see ah-kuk" (S); "wa-ak", "nah-kerk", nah-ku-pu", "kosiaak", "coo-see-ah-kuk", "pan-kuk", "quoy nudz-uh", "shugilatse" (P); "quoy-nutz-uh" (venereal disease), "coo-see quah-soop", "sada-kaitze" (P&S); "tsugilatse", "sugilatse", "bal-sam root", "narrow leaves", "sunflower", "balsam root sunflower" Beverage: tea from the roots taken. Boils: root roasted, split while hot, applied as a poultice. Consumption & tuberculosis: gummy sap taken in spoonful doses. Coughs & colds: roots steeped, solution taken. Emetic: roots steeped, solution taken. Eye wash: roo …
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plants, and it is rare that we find a drug to be administered that does not have materials derived from several plants. Perhaps the active substance is a single derivative, highly refined, but it is frequently carried in or dispersed in another plant pro- duct, and the taste, odor and sight are made more pleasing by the addition of extracts from spices, flavoring materials (i.e., vanilla, mint, et al.) and vegetable coloring (Bixa orellana, producing a red or yellow pigment, is one of the favorites). Other plant products are frequently employed in filtering or purifying the crude drug. Carefully prepared charcoal …
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Beatty, Nev. Indian Med. Plants. (Tom Stewart & Emmie Henry) 4. Pentstemon eatonii, bridgesii, or any red Pentstemon (8) Toh-quoh-bag-um Used here as a burn medicine. whole plant boiled, the resulting brew being used as a wash on the burned place. It is said to stop the burn well and heal the skin over the burn well. (This is the first time this plant has been given as a medicine plant.) 5. Arenaria sp. (T 2094) (S) no name known Roots boiled, solution used for eyewash. 6. Heliotropium sp. (as collected here) T2342 (S) I-yah-oh-ho *Others in same town call this Tumanabe Roots boiled, tea drink taken for failure t …
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B53 Catharanthus roseus Leurocristine, vincaleukoblastine Veratrum viride Alkaloid extracts Cinchona species Quinine, quinidine II. MEDICINAL PLANTS OF LESSER IMPORTANCE, BUT YIELDING IMPORTANT COMPOUNDS USED AS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT ARE NOT AMENABLE TO SYNTHESIS PLANT NAME USEFUL CONSTITUENTS Colchicum autumnale Colchicine, demecolcine Ammi visnaga Khellin Ammi majus 8-Methoxypsoralen Ananas sativus Bromelain Carica papaya Papain Cassia acutifolia Sennosides A & B Cassia angustifolia Sennosides A & B Plantago lanceolata Psyllium hydrocolloid Ricinus communis Castor oil Physostigma venenosum Physostigmine (Eser …
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… emedy to apply to caked breasts. Sarcodea sanguinea Torr. "snow plant" H 59 Dried stalks made into tea for pneumonia, supposed to build up blood. Senecio spp triangularis Hook. H 344 This particular species has not been reported to have a medicinal use in the state. Crushed leaves of other species are reported to be used as a liniment. Smilacina spp stellata (L.) Deaf. "false solomon seal"; "weshadomup" (P); "wombohnomb" (S) H 357 Swellings or boils: mash raw root, or soak dry root, and apply as poultice. Delayed menstruation: drink tea from whole plant or from root. Stomach disorders: drink tea from boiled root.
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… rather wish Englishmen to content themselves with the meat and sauce of our own country, then with fruit and sauce eaten with such peril... Gerard tried to combine several worlds of plant-value in this gigantic volume: descriptions (supplemented by accurate drawings), gardening experience, historical and geographical information, and, most important of all for him and his contemporaries, the traditional medical use of every plant known. As a result this is far and away the largest compendium of the herbal knowledge and beliefs of the Greek and Roman world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. (continued on back)
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Use. Seed forlornly eaten. Drink tea from seed for leaves for dropsicalswelling. Apply root raw as poultice. Rabbit brush, gray Number M496 Indian name "See-bape" Lamner of Use. Leaves and blossoms stripped for general tonic tea. Sweet Antise Number M497 Indian name "Bosswowy" Lamner of Use. Tea for diarrhea from roots. Same thing good for flu, which is preferred to toasa, but not thought to be quite as "Bi-Heva", which is emetic, after a large dose. Sunflower Number M498 Indian name "Pa-ak" Lamner of Use. Not highly regarded. Seed comparatively poor and tasteless. Only used in starving times. Poor forage also co …
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MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS AS USED WELLS, Elko Co., Nevada Information secured from following Indian informants by Percy Train, Agent, U.S.Bur. Plant Industry. Ruby Valley Johnson (Shoshone) Mamie Moore, his daughter (Shoshone) Medicinal plants 1. Grindelia nana and Kali seep (T 4659) whole plant and small chunk of bat excretion boiled, solution used as an antiseptic wash also taken in small doses internally, for small pox. 2. Rumex crispus (S) Neu-wha no ko Root boiled, tea taken in dose of 1/2 cup several times a day for liver complaint. 3. Argemone hispida (S) Wya sag-gee-gee Ripe seeds mashed, appli …
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Report on Indian Uses of Plants, by Austin Indians, by Mrs E.V.A. Murphy. Page 2. Common name Indian name Manner of Use. Rock Cross "Bi-Heva", called"Hooni" by Leaves and bits of stem are steeped bar tea, and to apply to swellings and ulcers Blue Gilia "Ah-Kerhi" Small doses of this plant dried are emetic.Good for children, not too drastic. Weyntia "An-Kerhi" Seeds not much used for food. Roots emetic. Bryegrass "Wa-h-don-zip" Seed formed yeaten in quantity. Seed called "Wa-abe" Trumpet Phlox "Yen Paiute" Regarded as a great physic, but weakening. Roots are used fresh for tea. This is originally a patite remedy a …
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5. Asclepias speciosa (Milkweed) (S) Be-sha-no-ko or Bo-ja-na-to * Milky juice applied to remove corns and foot calluses * Root mashed, moistened with water, applied as a poultice several days to reduce swellings. 6. Heracleum lanatum (Bear paw) (S) Bas-un-dook nut-zoo, meaning: Tuberculosis medicine. Root boiled, tea taken over a long period to cure tuberculosis. 7. Penstemon deustus (S) D4m-bah-shego Leaves mashed, moistened, applied as a poultice for skin eruptions, itch, exoms. 8. Gilia congesta (S) Bo-he-vah nut-zoo Tea made from boiling the whole plant is taken internally for venereal disease. Used also occ …
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MEDICINAL AND FOOD USES OF SOME COVILLEA BELT PLANTS REPORT NO 45 April 18-19-20, 1938 as used by Mohave Indians living at Needles, Calif. Information secured by Percy Train, Agent, Bureau of Plant Industry, formerly of Fort Mohave Reservation. Informants: Hiram P. McCord (Mohave Indian) Lela M. McCord ("") *(M) after plant means Mohave name MEDICINAL PLANTS 1. DATURA meteloides DC. (Jimson weed) (M) Mi-kea-Lero Dry the leaves and often smoked in cigarette paper, the smoke being inhaled as relief for asthma. Leaves were boiled, the solution being used to wash wounds, cuts, boils, etc. as an antiseptic. Leaf heate …
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CHAPTER 7 Drugs and Medicinal Plants The words, "drugs" and "medicines", have so many connotations that it is difficult to determine whether a difference exists between them, or whether they are the same. We will not enter this argument and use the words as though they were interchangeable. Obviously, not all materials that fall into these two headings are derived from plants. Mineral and animal substances are, or may be, used in the same way—to alleviate, change, or destroy some condition existing in the human or animal mind or body. We do not usually consider these substances used to cure plant diseases as medi …
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Angewandte Botanik (Nutzpflanzen) Wir hätten die Abteilung auch "Pflanze und Mensch" heissen können, dem die Produkte des Pflanzenreichs sind für den Menschen nicht minder wichtig wie die des Tierreichs. Nahrung- und Genussmittel, Oele, fette, Riechstoffe, Gummi, Harze, Gerb- und Farbstoffe, Faserstoffe, Arzneimittel u.s.w. liefern die Pflanzen dem Menschen. Ja sogar Bausteine, die er zum Bauen seiner Häuser verwendet, sind von Pflanzen geschaffen. Die Produkte des Pflanzenreichs haben aber auch eine ungeschworene kulturgeschichtliche Bedeutung, auf die einleitend hingewiesen sein soll. Der Mensch hat stets mit i …
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… tter than those of A. montana L. Large quantities were marketed during World War II. Arnica montana L., Arnica. (Compositae). - Perennial herb. Europe, Asia, Western N. America. Dried flower heads are used medicinally, as vulnerary, irritant, tonic. Contains a bitter compound, arnicin and an ess. oil. Arnica Root is composed of the dried rhizomes and roots; used for the same purpose as the dried flower heads. Used in many home remedies. A tincture is used for sprains and bruises. Aromadendron elegans Blume, Ki lunglung. (Magnoliaceae). - Tree. Malayan Penins. to Java. Wood light, whitish; used for furniture and c …