uses: 25174
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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25174 | 2711 | 111 | 140 | 35 | 2 | 23 | Leaves chewed on long walks to relieve thirst. The Kiowa name means 'salt weed.' This name may indicate that there was an early realization that the loss of salt through perspiration may be counteracted by chewing the leaves of this plant. | Vestal, Paul A. and Richard Evans Schultes, 1939, The Economic Botany of the Kiowa Indians, Cambridge MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 35 |