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… purifier: plant boiled, decoction used. Blood tonic: tea from leaves used. Boils - horses: leaves boiled, applied. Childbirth: plant boiled, decoction used. Childbirth - haemostatic after: leaves boiled, decoction taken. Colic: leaves boiled, decoction taken. Coughs & colds: plants boiled, decoction taken. Root chewed. Cuts - horses: plant boiled, decoction used as a wash. Diarrhoea: plant boiled, decoction taken. Dyspepsia: leaves boiled, decoction taken. Eyes - sore: leaves boiled, decoction strained and used as eye drops. Felons: plant boiled and applied as a compress or poultice. Leaves (Continued on page 2)

Report on Indian Plant Uses, Smoky Valley, Austin, Nevada, By E.V.A. Murphy, Aug. 18, 1937 Common name Number Indian name Maner of Use Tansy M458 None Tea from fresh leaves for suppressed men- Plantain? M459 "Woodlet" Mix raw leaves of this plant with same of wild clematis, and apply to wounds or bruises. Wild Clematis M460 "Basha wana" Same as foraging. Thought poisonous to eat. Gray rabbitbrush M461 "See-bape" Leaves and blossoms stripped for tea. Sagebrush M462 "Ba-habe". Leaves used for beverage, or as tea for colds. Peppermint M463 "Ba-guana", Herb dried and used as beverage, not considered medicinal. Elderb …

Gilia filifolia "too-bee man-a-ban", "too-bee too-ben-aba", "quoy-hee na-tiz-u-eh", "siigh-yah-gavan", "ntoo-man-aban", "neu-muh nooma baddo na-tizuah", (waqui-he-binga), "warrabuh", "si-yah-gum", "tsai-yarrabuh" (P); "quee-dah nut-zoo", "wit-toy nut-zoo" (emetic medicine), "ncha-ya-ka-ban" (S), "po-wa-nut-zoo", "duh-na-ee-go", "ndin-an-ee-goom", "ndun-nah eye-gump" (S); "blue gilia" Biliousness: whole plant boiled, decoction taken. Blood tonic: plant boiled, decoction taken. Constipation: tops boiled, decoction taken. Emetic: plant boiled, decoction taken. Plant boiled, cooled, decoction taken in dose of less th …

Gilia aggregata nenga-mo-wanyan, "item-paiute", "wive", "uten-ah-piute", "menga mowanna", "uscu-wa-ta-pew-jits", "nten paiute", "ntim-ba-hay-nut-zoon", "utin-en- piute", "wahn-nah-da nut-tub-zoom", "wenga-mutz-oh-y-newien", "ntim-piute", "tim-bah-hay nut-zoon" (S); "para-given", "pah-wah-gopish", "usoh-noy tah cun oh quah" (little bird food) (P); "trumpet phlox" Beverage: plant boiled, decoction taken. Blood purifier: plant boiled, decoction taken. Blood tonic: plant boiled, decoction taken. Cathartic: tea made from roots used. Plant boiled, decoction taken. Coughs & colds: roots boiled, decoction taken in 3 dose …

Sans entrer dans d'autres détails sur les qualités, les vertus et les usages des plantes, nous allons en premier présenter succinctement quelques-unes de leurs généralités les plus remarquables, n'ayant nul besoin de traiter plus spécialement à l'articulation de chaque plante celle qui nous paraîtront mériter quelque attention. On sait que la nature qui vit de subtils végétaux procure le goût qu'elle a aux substances qui la composent. Ce goût reflète dans leur chair, dans leur lait, dans leur urine dans un encens, etc., comme le plant dont il se nourrit change son goût, ainsi leurs goûts changent aussi : c'est ai …

Indian medicinal plants, contd: Johnnie Dick and family 3. Gillia filifolia (S) name not known Plants soaked in cold water. Used as a wash for sore eyes, but claimed by informant as not very effective remedy. 4. Artemisia tridentata (S) Bob-hoeve Leaves boiled, tea solution taken as a hot drink for colds and cough. Seeds eaten by old time Indians for food. 5. unidentified (s) Toy-aba-hobe This term means, mountain bush Grows at Hot Springs east of Rawhilde and is used occasionally by this informant for stomach ache and indigestion. Miscellaneous names: Chaenactis douglasii (Bay-quee-nut-zoo) Rosa sp. (See-avvie) …

… eady drink to help as a cure for rheumatism. 13. Tetradymia comosa (P) See-goo-ee Tea made from boiling stems taken for cough. 14. Argemone hispida (P) Esha-ah-goo-wha, coyote food Ripe seeds ground to an oily paste, applied to sores. 15. Cercocarpus ledifolius (P) Too-be, or Quoy-nudz-uh na-tiz-u-ah (Venereal disease) Bark cut, dried, ground to a powder and used to dry up syphilitic sores. 16. Rumex hymenosepalus (S) Tuha-kono-gip This is the standard Yerington medicine. All old families have some of the dried root. They have a number of uses but none of them know it has been used among Shoshones as burn remedy.

MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS as used by Birdie Hooper, Shoshone Percy Train Austin, Nevada 1. CRIPIS acuminate (Hawthorn) (S) Bee-sha-no-go Seeds or all of the plant is used, mashed fine, applied as an external poultice or application of sore or caked breast. 2. LEPTODACTYLON dungeni (B) Pin-sh-ee-go The plant is boiled, brew being used for eye swelling 3. ASTRAGALUS sp. (S) Tok-quee This word means "to squeeze" or "pop" as some of the Astragalus have thin inflated balloon pods which snap when squeezed. The root is boiled, brew being used for toothache. 4. TETRADYMA canescens inermis. (S) Pah-vah-bah-bab- …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected By Mrs. Edith V.A. Murphey at Austin, Nevada, August 16, 1937. No Herbarium specimens with this date. Identification made from dried specimens. "Indian tobacco"; "Bwui Paho"(S) Gathered when ripe, hung up to dry in shade. Whole plant thrashed into bits less than 2 in. long, and smoked for pleasure. "Sagebrush"(Big); "Bahobe"(S) Leaves stripped for tea for colds. Seeds formerly parched in a basket. Ground and eaten. "Chokecherry"; "Donem"(S), (food). ("Dongeszib", name referring solely to the shrub.) The food name refers solely to the cherries which are dried seeds and all, or made i …

… ts, failed. "Pine-nut tree"; "Tuba" (P&SH) Nuts used for food. Roasted. Then ground for flour. Water "Indian trees"; "Tsurupe" (P&SH) Slender twigs dried and aromatic tea made from them used as beverage or medicinally for cold. "String milkweed"; "Baha wana" (SH) Gum made from milky juice. Outside fibre after frost is used for fishing line or for nets. "Cactus", "Prickly Pear"; "Wo-gaybe" (SH) In early days, Old People burned thorns off and roasted root for food. "Grindelia aquatica"; "Samaka-para" (SH) Upper third of plant dried, and sticky buds especially in demand, to steep for cough medicine. Also taken in si …

(Baptisia leucantha and leucophaca), the pomme de prairie (Psoralea esculenta) with its large turnip shaped root much used by the Indians and explorers for food, silver-leaf Psoralea (Psoralea argophylla), white prairie clover (Petalostemon candidus), violet prairie clover (Petalostemon violaceus), ground plum (Astilbeus caryocarpus), lead-plant (Amorpha canescens), vetch (Vicia americana), cinque-foil (Potentilla arguta), rose (Rosa arborescens), prairie primrose (Oenothera serrulata),

Larrea tridentata "Ya-temp" (S); "weve-they" (W); "weikoi-haap", "uci-koi", "weikoi" (Pap.) Baby - navels: leaves dried, powdered and applied. Burns: leaves boiled with ephedra, badger oil added, and salve applied. Coughs & colds: leaves boiled, decoction taken for a few days. Earache: tops placed over a bag of hot sand or hot water bottle, patient's ear on the tops. Emetic: leaves boiled, decoction taken. Feet - sore: feet held over smoke from smouldering green branches. Gonorrhoea: tea from ephedra and this plant used. Insect bites: leaves chewed and applied. Menstrual disorders: leaves and leaf galls made into …

Take note of the way they use the roots: simple boiling, or more complex preparation; do they use any special utensils, baskets, or griddles. Note any specification they may have for the places of planting; close by their dwellings or removed; is the facing of the planting on an east-west, or north-south side of hills, or in valleys, etc. Any folklore should be investigated. These are but suggestions for your data gathering. They are intended to discover whether the natives have a long history of cultivation, or whether rather recent. If they have a long history of using this crop, they will probably have a numbe …

INDIAN MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS BY PAIUTES AT Central Smith Valley, near Wellington, Nev. Information secured from following informants by Percy Train U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry. Sadie Jones, Paiute Sadie Whistler, Paiute 1. Osmorhiza occidentalis (P) worra-eye-eg-oh-bah Roots boiled, tea taken hot for colds and fever. Root mixed with Leptotaenia root, boiled, tea for cold 2. Rumex crispus (P) Pawia Root soaked in cold water, 1 cup taken several times a day as a tonic for tired and rundown feeling. 3. Dalea polyadenia (P) Moh-goon-du-hoopie tops ground fine, dried, boiled, tea taken for muscular pa …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected by Mrs. Edith V. A. Murphey in report of June 21, 1937. Medical plants used by Papagos, contributed by Dr. H. V. Hailman. Childbirth: "Creosote bush". Woman lies on heated branches; dried pulverized leaves steeped in hot water and rubbed on breasts to start flow of milk. Dried powdered leaf rubbed on infant's navel. Colds: "Mesquite mistletoe"; "Kui haap". Leaves boiled and drunk. Emetics: Coviella glutinosa "Cikoi". Leaves boiled and drunk. (see last item page #2) Rheumatism: Coviella glutinosa "Cikoi". Lay heated branches on joints. Sore feet: Coviella glutinosa "Cikoi". Hold feet …

M 492 "Net Spray" (no Indian name) Vague idea this is medicine, long ago. M 493 "Wild buckwheat" No medicinal use. Gathered because it was strange. M 494 "Poverty weed" "Durunzip" Roots steeped, after seed is ripe, for diarrhea. M 495 "Dock" "Bija Noko" Seed formerly eaten. Drink tea from seed and leaves for dropsical swelling. M 496 "Rabbitbrush" (gray) "See-bape" "Aka-tali" Leaves and blossoms stripped for general tonic tea. M 497 "Sweet anise" "Bossowy" Tea for diarrhea from roots. Same thing good for flu, which is emetic, after third dose. M 498 "Sunflower" "Pe-sak" Not highly regarded. Seed comparatively poo …

2. DATURA meteloides (Jimson weed) (P) Moh-mope The root is chewed. This has an intoxicating effect on the user similar to the effects of cocaine. Also known as a lucky root, supposed to have the ability to answer any questions or possible future happenings. 3. CUCURBITA sp. (Desert gourd) (P) Ann-no-quay Seeds of ripe gourds gathered, ground up fine and sprinkled dry on skin sores due to venereal disease. Root is good medicine being boiled, the bitter brew being taken as a drink for venereal disease. 4. KRAMERIA GRAYI (T 1884) (P) Nah-kah-vah dah-tohnub When ears of this plant are pierced for ornaments, the stra …

Report on Indian Plant Uses, Smoky Valley, Austin, Nevada, Page 5. Common name. Number. Indian name Manner of Use. String milkweed M499 "Esha-wana" When frost comes strip outer skin from the plant, stretch it every way, Sagebrush M500 "Ba-habe" Leaves. Seed for physic, and for colds from motion of thumb. Tough as fishline. Yellow mints M501 "Unde-vich-quana" Fresh leaves used as poultice for wounds of blood poisoning. Renew when dry. Wild peony M502 "Batipe". Remembered chiefly as an ideal remedy for burns or sores. Root dried powdered, applied. Aconite M503 No Shoshone name bad enough for this known poisoner. No …

Nicotiana attenuata Torr. A 5888 Sores: pulverized plant used as a dust. Cuts: apply chewed leaves. Hives or itch: bathe in water of soaked leaves. Oxalis drummondii Lindl. "Oregon grape"; "sogotembuh" (S); "corenup pahween" (P) N&L 598 Hemophilia, rectal hemorrhage: roots boiled and tea taken. Bladder and Kidney trouble: roots boiled and tea taken. Small amount of solution from boiled root added to whiskey and taken for coughs. Venereal disease (gonorrhea)? - roots boiled and tea taken. Dye: the root also yields an orange dye. Orobanche multiflora Nutt. "broomrape"; "tue hoo" (P) G & H 941 Plant usually eaten li …

note of the way they use the roots: simple boiling, or more complex preparation; do they use any special utensils, baskets, or griddles. Note any specification they may have for the places of planting; close by their dwellings or removed; is the facing of the planting on an east-west, or north-south side of hills, or in valleys, etc. Any folklore should be investigated. These are but suggestions for your data gathering. They are intended to discover whether the natives have a long history of cultivation, or whether rather recent. If they have a long history of using this crop, they will probably have a number of …