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Materials to be collected 1. M 127 Mundentlees, "tuscongibou", root for sore and stomachache 2. M 46 Berries pounded dry and put on sores 3. M 64 Thistle, root-de skin of plant used for rheumatism (Wampanoag) 4. M 91 Curassavium heliotropium, "white tidleneck" plant emetic 5. M 281 White Willow, "tsabeb" Roots for venereal disease 6. "Todzi-tinne-abu" bark of the shrub eaten when cough is present 7. (M91?) "Tu-ma-nabe" Leaf used as an emetic (Wampanoag) 8. "Tsenavi" Boil plant for stomach pains. (Wampanoag) 9. Sphaerolea ambigua roots for venereal disease 10. "Creosote Bush" Leaves a galactogogue and also used on …

MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS IN USE AT WELLS, Elko Co. Nevada. Information secured from following informants by Percy Train, Agent, U.S.Bur. Plant Industry. Tom Pabawenas (Shoshone) Rosie Pabawenas (Shoshone) Tootsie Antelope (Shoshone) MEDICINAL PLANTS 1. Pinus monophylla (S) (wahpee) Juniperus utahensis (S) Sahn-ah-poh Kidney medicine: Pine nut pitch and juniper leaves boiled, solution taken in doses of 1/2 glass at a time for a period of a week at a time. 2. Aquilegia formosa (S) Pah-wah-gumb Root boiled, solution taken for stomachache and diarrhea. 3. Odostemon repens (S) So-go-diem Root boiled, taken …

Purshia tridentata "whuh-nah-bee", "humape", "nhunevi", "wlinna-huh-nabbe", "huh-nabbe", "whuh-nabben", "woy-ee-na-tizuah" (S); "huh-ma-bee", "huh-nabeen", "pah-quah-oo-abbam", "pee-wit-toy" (P); "nhuh-nabeen", "hunabeen" (P&S); "wbal-nat-san" (W); "wantelope brush", "mbitterbrush" Antiseptic: leaves boiled, decoction used as a wash. Tops and leaves boiled, warm decoction used as a wash. Leaves boiled 1/2 hour, decoction used as a wash. Top stems and leaves boiled, warm decoction used as a wash. Beverages: tea made from branches used. Blood purifier: leaves boiled, decoction taken in small doses. Blood tonic: lea …

Report No. 50 October 1938 INDIAN MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS Paute Indian Reservation, Pyramid Lake, Nixon, Nevada. Information secured by Percy Train, Agent, Bureau of Plant Industry, from the following informants: Dave Mauwee Paute Dick Mauwee Paute Joe Wadsworth Paute 1. Sericotheca dumosa (Rockspirea) (P) Oh-na-tiz-wabbe, meaning rock medicine Root boiled for bad stomach, cure for diarrhea. 2. Gilia pulchella or aggregata (Timpuite) (P) Pah-wah-gopish Roots only. Boiled, solution taken as a drink for colds. 3. Mentha occidentalis (Mint) (P) Pah-guanna-av Used in the summer time as a tea drink bevera …

… swelling - tea from boiled plant as a wash. Stomach trouble: tea from boiled plant. Leptotaenia multifida Nutt. "balsam root"; "tosa"(P); "tohsup"(S) A 5465, B 601 Familiar to all the Indians, and has many medicinal uses, the more common being for coughs and colds, or tuberculosis. For this purpose it is used in various ways: dry the root, cut into small chips and the brew taken as tea. The dried chips may be smoked as cigar-ettes or in pipe, and is sometimes mixed with dried Nicotiana attenuata or other species. Another mixture: equal parts of cedar leaves, old leaves of Artemisia tridentata, old leaves of Chrys …

Paeonia brownii "pah-na-den", "de vas", "mbut-tu-vah", "pah-nah-din", "mah-din-an", "mas- we-ken nut-zoo", "mbut-tu-vah", "mbah-div-an", "mbah-e- boh nut-zoo", "pah-dib-sh" (S); "pan-too-bah", "batipav", "pah-sue-gee-pu", "mah-tee-vah" (P); "matipi" (P&S); "idooyan-gum-hoon" ntue-ego-nomo" (W); "mbatipava", "mewa-tama" (Burns Colony, Ore.); "wild peony" Boils: roots dried, ground to a fine powder, applied as a poultice. Burns: root dried and powdered - applied. Coughs and colds: root mashed, applied to deep cuts, as a healing agent. Cuts and wounds: root boiled, decoction taken. Diarrhoea: root soaked in cold wat …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected by Mrs. Edith V.A. Murphey, at Ely, Nevada, July 17, 1937. Informant: Mrs. Annie Riley. "Little Queen Anne's Lace"; "Tage-segee" Top used for flavoring, root cooked. Starchy. "Mt. mahogany"; "Turumbu" For coloring buckskin red. "Chokecherry"; "Donom" Food and Jelly. "Balsamroot"; "Kosial" Seed used as food. Ground and cooked. "Willow"; "Tsube" Branches used for basketry. "Valerian"; "Gubeshumb" Root, tea tonic. "Sego lily"; "Segaw" Root eaten raw in the spring. Not stored. "Queen Anne's Lace"; "Yumb" Tubers gathered for winter; at Fort Hall, Idaho. 4th of July, "Yumb" tubers sold fo …

Indian medicinal plants, contd: Page 2 3. Pentstemon deustus (3) Dimbahsego Leaves and stems boiled in quantity, solution used as an external wash for running sores. Legs soaked in hot bath solution for swollen veins. External wash for persistent skin eruptions such as eczema. 4. Clematis ligusticifolia and Plantago sp. (T 5401) (8) Clematis: Esba-wanna (8) Plantago: Wee-dee Leaves of the Clematis mashed, moltened a little with cold water, mixed with mashed Plantago leaves. Applied as a drawing poultice when it is desired to have a boil, swellings, etc. * This usage of Clematis leaves was given by an informant on …

Page 2 Purshia tridentata Emetic: Leaves boiled, strong decoction taken in dose of 1/2 - 1 cup. Tea from ripe seeds taken. Handful of leaves boiled in water enough to cover, decoction taken. Inner bark only, boiled; decoction taken. Leaves boiled, decoction taken. Eyes - sore: Inner bark powdered and applied. Tea from bark Gonorrhoea: Leaves boiled, decoction taken. Inner bark steeped, solution taken. Haemorrhage: Leaves and stems boiled, decoction used as anti-septic wash. Insect bites: Leaves and stems boiled, decoction used as an anti-septic wash. Top stems and leaves boiled, decoction used as a wash. Itch: Le …

… 7217 M 459 Plantago major "Plantain" (S) 1-2 ft. tall. Leaves used for tea and as a poultice for wounds or bruises. 7218 M 460 Clematis vitalba "Wild clematis" (S) 10-15 ft. tall. Leaves mixed with wild oenothera leaves N 460 and applied to wolf traps referring to trailing stems. (See M 459 for use.) 7219 M 461 Tetradymia glabrata "Gray rabbit brush" (S) 2-3 ft. high. Also applied to green rabbit brush. Name for bite plants inside. Indian use: leaves and blossoms stripped and dried for medicine. 7220 M 462 Artemisia tridentata "Balsamroot" (S) 1-2 ft. tall. Odorous. Indian use: tea for beverage and general tonic. …

20. M182 Clematis "N-see-wena" (Menting wolf trap) referring to sparrowing roots above ground. Good for shampoo, the root dried and powdered. 21. M184 Tiny Blue Gillies "Pa-we-na-tuswa" Plant boiled and teas taken as a galactogogue. Also used for lung trouble. 22. M186 "Cinquefoil"? "Casasea" Cook whole plant and use as a laxative. 23. M200 Linum "Flex" "Pooh-hantasi" Roots steeped for sore eyes and itchles; Leaves steeped for diarrhea. 24. M205 "Pink Phlox" "Sag-donza" Whole plant and use as a laxative. 25. M207 Wild currant; Bogumbe. Tea from inner bark used for dropsical swellings. 26. M208 "Gray Plant" "Doot …

3081 208 Plants used in medicine. 3085 A1 210 Cruciferae "cress;" edible 3091 A1 218 Ephedra "Indian tea", used as beverage and as blood purifier. 3132 A1 267 Gramineae Oryzopsis hymenoides (R.+S.) Ricker 3140 A1 285 Rumex "dock"; Indian tobacco Seed and seed vessels sometimes smoked as tobacco. Medicinal data from general flora collection 3944 T216 Agastache urticaefolia (Benth.) Kuntze "wild horsemint" used by Indians as food.

Report on Indian Uses of Plants by Austin Indians, by Mrs E.V.A. Murphy, Aug.16, 1937 No Herbarium specimens with this data. Identifications made from dried specimens. Common name "Bwul Peho" Gathered when ripe, hung up Indian tobacco "Bwul Peho" Whole plant threshed into bits to dry in shade. Leaves stripped for tea for colds. Seeds ground for pleasure. Chokecherry "Donem" (Food) This name refers solely to the cherries which are driled, seeds and all, or made into jelly. "Pongesitzb", is a name which refers solely to the shrub itself. Evening primrose "Oha Yangea" Tea made from driled roots for colds or stomacha …

Cercocarpus ledifolius Diphtheria: inner bark soaked, solution taken. Eyes - sore: inner bark dried, sifted, boiled, decoction used as a wash. Haemorrhage - pulmonary: Dried bark boiled, decoction taken over a long period. Heart - ailments: bark peeled, dried, boiled, decoction taken often. Heart trouble: tea from bark used. Tea from leaves used. Pneumonia: bark boiled, decoction taken. Pulmonary: inner bark dried, sifted, boiled, decoction taken for pain in lungs. Bark mixed with stems and leaves of Purshia tridentata, boiled, decoction taken cold and often for chest pains, pain in lungs due to tuberculosis. Ski …

22. Artemisia tridentata (S) Boh-hoe-be Universal remedy for all ills Tops and leaves boiled Antiseptic wash Cramps Cuts and wounds Colds 23. Rumex hymenosepalus (S) wya nut-zoo, burn medicine Root mashed, applied as poultice to burns 24. Veratrum californicum (S) wenda wasse Birth control Root boiled, solution taken internally every day, once a day by both man and woman after marriage while still young 25. Pinus monophylla (S) wah-pee Pitch heated till soft, applied as a drawing agent to boils Pitch softened, applied as a poultice to heal ruptures 26. Purshia tridentata (S) Huh-nabbe Tops boiled, solution used a …

Cruciferae Alliaria officinalis garlic mustard

Murphey report. Indian Uses of Plants. Mac Dermitt. Page 2. Common name Indian Name Number Use. Yarrow "Todzi-tonega" M172 Leaves boiled and applied. Achillea millefolium Wild iris "Poktu-erup" M180 For collar boils on a horse. Iris Missouriensis Rye grass, dry grass blades M156 Note: Tea of leaves used by Californians for TB, and applied for felon. M180 Seeds are poisonous to horses. Forage. Native to these meadows/ It tastes bitter when green, but when winter comes, it dries sweet, and the cattle will paw the snow eagerly to find it. If cut in fields, it becomes less coarse, and less bumpy. Osier dogwood "A-tsa …

Report No 57 (172) 1939 INDIAN MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS Washoe Indian tribe, Gardnerville and Dresselville, Nev. Information secured by Percy Train, Agent, Bureau of Plant Industry, from the following informants: Willie Smokey, Washoe Sadie Smokey, Washoe Mrs. Huntington Smokey, Washoe Freda Wyatt, Washoe Note: In regard to the dosage and frequency in which the Washoe Indians take their medicine, it is their habit to take the remedy they use and the minute they feel the least improved, they stop taking medicine. The usual dose is 1/2 cup at a time. 1. Smilacina liliaceae (False Solomonseal) (W) Dama-E …

Report No 33 7/20/37 MEDICINE, USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS AS USED BY PIUTE AND SHOSHONE TRIBES OF FT. MCDEMITT INDIAN RESERVATION. Information secured by Percy Train, Agent, Bureau Plant Industry, 1. NICOTIANA attenuata: Indian name: (Pooh-wee-buh-hoon) (P) The leaves of the wild tobacco were dried, ground fine, and mixed with deer tallow or rabbit grease and some other dried plant the name of which we were unable to discover. The grease was to make it burn more slowly and add a better flavor. 2. CICUTA occidentalis: (Haw-ken-noo) Poison parsnip Used by the older members of these tribes as a cure for rattlesnake …

Rumex crispus "bija noko", "nenga pawia", "bija'noke", "rbe-ja-no-kon", "new-wha no-kon", "new-wha nut-zoon", "bija-no-kon", "mbee-ja-no-kon", "dim-woo-een", "wwya- nut-zoon", "new-wha-nut-zoon" (S); "pa-wi-up", "pawian", "pawiuup", "pa-we- up", "ipah-wee-ubn", "nenga-pah-wee-ubn" (P); "ndock", "windian rhubarb" Biliousness: root boiled, less than 1/2 cup of decoction Bladder: root peeled, boiled, decoction taken in 1/2 cup dose daily. Blood purifier: roots and leaves steeped, solution taken. Blood tonic: tea made from the roots, taken. Bruises: root boiled, decoction taken. Burns: root mashed, applied as a poult …