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Indian medicinal plants, Upper Reaso River, Nov. page 4 13. Leptotaenia multifida (Cough Root) (S) Tobaa The root used as influenza remedy. Root boiled and solution taken for heavy chest colds, root dried, pieces shaved in pipe and smoked, smoke inhaled to clear the nasal passages. 14. Rose sp. (Wild rose) (S) See-avvie Leaves steeped in hot water, taken as a pleasant tea beverage either hot or cold. Used occasionally. 15. Orobanch sp. (S) Doo While not used for medicine, inquiry was made as to dosage and frequency being gotten among the Indians. Alice Hooper and a number of her small children were eating freshly …

Book V 5541. Which are the best plants, native or foreign, when cultivated? Shelby holds the view that food medicine is better for man to adhere to the plants native to his own land, as they have the relative share life or poor health of his ferns in imported food medicinal plants. The use of foreign herbs in drugs is just done to "treat" disease and "cure" more the body & cleaner than those when they possess virtue when they are familiar. However, than one county may exist another in case of necessity, it was not deprived of the fruit of the vine because it does not naturally grow there. The best condition: This …

Indian Plant Uses - Mrs. Edith V. A. Murphey Echinocystis wild melon; arno ko (S); arnocup (Moapa) ('wild cucumber') Yucca our Lord's candle; viemp Not found at Moapa but sought elsewhere, even as far as Death Valley. arts. eaten. String produced, two fibers to each leaf. Soap from root. Yucca whipped Grows close to rocks. White flower, reported from Ely, Nev. Items not identified: Tuwisk inub (P) reported from Schurz, Nev. Unh, bnerous root, to eat. Tutume reported from Ely, Nev. turns into tu-tupe at Moapa, and is the same as tsburupe and durumbe--all names for Ephedra Dunumbe is Mt. Mahogany. Medical plants us …

INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANT USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS Information secured by Percy Train, Agent, from informant given below. Richard Birdham, Shoshone, Austin, Nev. 1. Populus angustifolia (Cottonwood) bark only Urtica sp. root only Cottonwood bark, wild rose roots, and nettle roots are boiled together. 1 cup of this resulting solution is taken at each meal as a tonic remedy for general sickness, lill rundown condition, and to clean the blood. 2. Monarda odoratissima Wild pennyroyal (S) Bur-mut-zoo. Called this by Richard Birchum as it is his blood medicine. Whole plant dried, boiled, taken as a drink tonic to clean …

Report No. 80 RUBY VALLEY, Elko Co., Nevada. INDIAN MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS USED AS Information secured by Percy Trein, Agent, U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry from the following informant: Margaret Knight, wife of Oscar Knight, living on Gardner Ranch, Ruby Valley. She is a Shoshone, born and raised at Cherry Creek, White Pine Co., Nevada. 1. Osmorhiza occidentalis (Sweet Root) (S) Bes-oh-wip Root boiled, tea taken hot, several teaspoons at a time as a remedy for whooping cough. Root boiled, hot tea used as a beverage every meal with sugar added, especially in winter months, to ward off colds and sore …

3. Cercocarpus ledifolius (P) Too-be Bark not used. Roots dug, dried in sun, boiled for tuberculosis cough. 4. Psathyrotes ramosissima (P) no name Emetic medicine. Whole plant boiled Venereal disease. This solution burns the throat badly. Warm water is taken after taking to soothe the throat. 5. Rumex hymenosepalus (P) Tuha-kono-gip Roots dried, powdered, sprinkled on sores to heal. Roots mashed, poultice on swellings. Sprinkled on syphilitic sores. 6. Gilia pulehella or ageratum (P) no name *This is one of the queerest mysteries. All Shoshones, practically without exception nod their heads and agree that this "T …

MEDICINAL AND FOOD PLANTS USED AT STILLWATER RESERVATION, Stillwater, Nevada Information secured by Percy Trim, Agent, Bureau of Plant Industry, for the following Indians: Mrs. Agnes Weeks Dixon, interpreter for following Indians: Steve Jake Hettie Jake Johndie Jim Johnnie Jim's wife Mamie McCann Middle Tom Jessie Jim Charlie Jim LITTLE PINE (Cedar) 1. LEPTOTENA multifida (Cough root) (S) toh-sup (P) ton-ss Familiar to all the Indians and the most common used of all the medicine roots. Root shaved fir smoke in pipe, sprinkled on coals and fumes inhaled for head colds, small piece chewed slow to stop coughing. Roo …

```text Western Shoshone Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada. Indian Plant Uses.4. Common name Indian name No. Manner of Use. Monkshood None M252 Whole dried plant used as eye-wash by Shoshones. St John's Wort None M252 Whole dried plant used as stool. Water Plantain None M255 Shoehones formerly ate lower part of plant and root. Not now used. Rabbit-brush "White topped," "See page", SH. M257 Gray leaves used as cold remedy Also leaves stripped from stem. Also used for diarrhea. Indian Paintbrush. "Doo-wan-dayem" Held in dread reverence. Not used. Wheatgrass None M256 Useful as browse, in spite of its prickliness in early …

NOLETTIA Kunth (Bigelowia, P.C., Diolacoides, Mahr) ANCHIETA #thil. (Nolettia, M-2). A. salutaris, a crpy bush, a root of Cabbage, & nauseous taste, that in Braz a quack cures every age skin dis. Some people use to it as tov.candies, forces, la apres. SCHWEIGERIA Syxeng. (Glossocleba /M-2) CORYNSTYLIS Max. (Calycotima, Gips) Tooning stem; needs a benay; the link to Passiflora, the singular spuced x perenate has aged byly, p 338. of C Hyacinthus. AMPHIRHOX #spring. (Amphirhogo, Reh, Spathularia #thil. Bradlein, Fl.Plum) ALSODEIA Theurus (Alsodea, M-2, Conchoria Kunth,Audr, Dripax,Morah, Physiphora,Salody, Riana, A …

Odonton repens "poo-heg-wee-dah", "correnup-paveen", "cor-ren-nup pavee", "cor-ren-nup pah-vee" (P); "so-go-diem", "so-go-diem" (P); "toya-tu-yah buh-huh", "toya-tu-yah buh-huh", "pan-ah-hoe", "pan-ah-hoe" (S); "nso-go-tiembuh" (S); "kaw-danup", "marberry" Aches: Backache: leaves boiled, decoction taken. Bladder: roots boiled, decoction taken. Blood purifier: roots boiled, not boiled, first water discarded, second solution taken several times a day in doses of less than 1/2 cup to clean the blood. Blood thickener: tea from root used. Roots steeped, solution taken. Blood tonic: root boiled, decoction taken. Root s …

Beowawe report, 1950. Page 4 16. Lithospermum ruderalre (S) Nom-ishaw Root dried, boiled, decoction taken to stop blood hemorrhages and diarrhoea. 17. Leptotaenia multifida Cough root (S) Toh-sup Root sliced and dried, chewed, smoked, or tea made from boiling slices, as a remedy for flu, heavy colds, and cough. 18. Helianthella uniflora (S) An-kulk Root claimed to be hot when mashed, moistened and applied as a poultice or counter-irritant on aching rheumatic shoulders or knee joints. 19. Gilia congesta (S) Hoo-nah Whole plant boiled, taken for strong physic and over a long period as a blood tonic. 20. Rosa sp. (S …

INDIAN MEDICINAL USES OF SOME NEVADA PLANTS AT BEOWAWE, Nevada Information secured from following informants by Percy Train, U.S.Bureau of Plant Industry. Maggie Machado, Alice Jackson, Jennie Murphey, Eva Piffero, George Buffalo, The Shoshones at Beowawe number but a few families and not many old people among them. Maggie Machado is an alert well informed old lady with a wide range of plant food and medicinal knowledge. Her daughter, Alice Jackson, is unusually well informed about plants also. They all lived when young in the Cortez Range of mountains to the south and east of Beowawe, and the plants they knew oc …

7. HEUCHERA CILIANDRICA (Alum root) (S) Din-dahn-buh It is known that the Indians used the leaves of some other plants to mix with their wild tobacco at Ruby Valley and they called it Kinnikinic. In the mountains in country of the Toyoabe Range at the head of Reese River, these Indians use the leaves of this white flowered alum root. Leaves mashed fine and mixed with wild tobacco when smoked. 8. LEPTODACTYLON DUNGENSIS (S) Be-nh din-ah-see-go Notice that Phlox is called Din-sh-e-e-go Leptodactylon is bia (pe-an) Plant is boiled, the brew taken internally for sore stomach. 9. SAMBUCUS MELANOCarpa (Elderberry) (S) …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected by Mrs. Edith V.A. Murphey in Smoky Valley, Austin, Nevada, August 18, 1937, Tobe Rogers, Mrs. Hooper M 456 "Tansy" (No Indian name) Not native. Tea from fresh leaves for suppressed menstruation in young girls. M 459 "Plantain?" "Woodie" Mix raw leaves of this plant with same of wild clematis, and apply to wounds or bruises. M 460 Clematis ligusticifolia "Wild clematis" "Esha wane" Used same as M 459. Thought poisonous to eat. M 461 Chamaecytisus moultonii "Gray rabbitbrush" "See-bape" Leaves and blossoms stripped for tonic tea. M 462 "Sagebrush" "Ba-habe" Leaves used for beverage, …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected by Mrs. Edith V.A. Murphy at Tonapah, Nevada, July 20, 1937. Informants: Mrs. Nellie Fabian, Mrs. Wagon Johnnie and Mrs. Black Eye (all old ladies of Tonapah), Mrs. Mannie Hooper, (young) of Manhattan, Nevada. "Thistle"; "Koida" Stem stripped of skin and stalk eaten raw as celery. "Rabbit brush" (No Indian name). Tea from leaves for colds. "Wild rose"; "Tsiavi" Second or inner bark ground and applied to swelling. Root is also ground and used for a dye, yellow. "Indian cabbage"; (No Indian name) Basal leaves and roots cooked for food. "Desert mallow", "Wild geranium"; "Goina Kumbe" N …

Valeriana officinalis Valerian root Cichorium intybus Chicory Matricaria chamomilla Chamomile flowers Symphytum officinale Comfrey Rosa canina Rose Hips Leonurus cardiaca Mugwort Verbascum thapsus Mullein

35. Crepis scopulorum (S) Bee-jee div-o-wip Plants mashed, applied as poultice in cases of caked breast. 36. Paeonia brownii (S) Pah-dib-ah Root boiled, tea used as a gargle for sore throat Root boiled, solution cooled, used as an eye wash 37. Lithospermum ruderalie (S) Nomishaw Root boiled, solution taken in dose of 1/2 cup or less for stomach ache, to stop blood diarrhea. Also used as a mild physic. 38. Juniperus utahensis (S) Sahn-ah-poh Juniper leaves moistened, applied as a poultice on horses caused by barbed wire. 39. Cercocarpus ledifolius (S) Tunabe Bark peeled off and boiled. 1/2 to 1 glass of the cold t …

June 1938 by W. A. Archer at Reno, Nevada. Achillea lanulosa "Lvs. boiled and used as poultice for sores." Artemisia heterophylla "pall-luwe-it" for headache; boil lvs. and use as wash; for rheumatism use as liniment Balsamorrhiza sagittata "shugi artus" root used as rumigent. Cercocarpus ledifolius "dubul" no use. Leptotaenia multifida "dodsa" Osmorhiza occidentalis "ootsolich-matut" root decoction used for disorders of stomach. Paeonia brownii "dooyah-gomu" root decoction used as wash for headaches. Prosela polyadenia "tsoho mosuk" used as a tonic and for colds. Smilacina stellata "she-gimba" root used as a was …

MEDICINAL PLANT DATA Collected by Mrs. Edith V. A. Murphey, at Reno Indian colony, July 10, 1937. Informants: Mrs. John Newman, Murphy sisters and Jerrah Warwick. All of these are Paiutes. Washoes will be seen later. Identifications made by names and from traveling spec- imens. "Sagebrush"; "Sawabae" Tea from leaves as beverage and for colds. "Balsam root"; "Ah-Kerb" Seed eaten fresh when ripe or ground for meal. "Chokecherry"; "Daw'es'abul" Fruit eaten fresh or dried. "Willow"; "Tsube" Twigs, short shoots used for small baskets and long ones bent for baby houses and arbors. "Sego lily"; "Kogi" Bulbs are eaten ra …