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id ▼ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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96 | Abies balsamea (L.) P. Mill. 2 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 378 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Needle-like leaves used as part of the ceremony involving the sweatbath. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 378 |
158 | Abies grandis (Dougl. ex D. Don) Lindl. 5 | Kwakiutl 121 | tb73 63 | 268 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Branches and pollen used in purification rites and ceremonies. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 268 |
215 | Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. 6 | Blackfoot 23 | m09 42 | 273 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant burned as ceremonial incense. | McClintock, Walter, 1909, Medizinal- Und Nutzpflanzen Der Schwarzfuss Indianer, Zeitschriff fur Ethnologie 41:273-9, page 273 |
248 | Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. 6 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 5 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Needles burned as incense in ceremonies by persons afraid of thunder. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 5 |
253 | Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. 6 | Crow 60 | b05 73 | 5 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Young twigs and leaves burned as incense in certain ceremonies. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 5 |
333 | Abies sp. 8 | Cheyenne 33 | g72 39 | 169 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves with fungus burned on coals with or without sweet grass used ceremonially to purify sickness. | Grinnell, George Bird, 1972, The Cheyenne Indians - Their History and Ways of Life Vol.2, Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press, page 169 |
541 | Acer negundo L. 27 | Cheyenne 33 | h92 30 | 4 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Wood burned as incense for making spiritual medicines. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 4 |
906 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 362 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Florets smoked for ceremonial purposes. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 362 |
1030 | Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis DC. 42 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 47 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 47 |
1032 | Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis DC. 42 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 362 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Compound containing flowering heads smoked for ceremonial purposes. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 362 |
1201 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 7 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in a sweat lodge ceremony. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 7 |
1267 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Dakota 61 | g19 17 | 69, 70 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Blades of grass used as garlands in mystery ceremonies. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 69, 70 |
1352 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 69, 70 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Blades of grass used as garlands in mystery ceremonies. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 69, 70 |
1364 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 69, 70 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Blades of grass used as garlands in mystery ceremonies. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 69, 70 |
1372 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 69, 70 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Blades of grass used as garlands in mystery ceremonies. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 69, 70 |
1391 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Winnebago 280 | g19 17 | 69, 70 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Blades of grass used as garlands in mystery ceremonies. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 69, 70 |
1449 | Actaea rubra (Ait.) Willd. 61 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 33 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Roots used in ceremonies. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 33 |
1592 | Adiantum pedatum L. 71 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 61 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used by dancers to make them light footed. | Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 61 |
1681 | Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) Kuntze 84 | Cree 54 | j87 146 | 51 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Flowers frequently included in medicine bundles. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 51 |
1702 | Agastache pallidiflora ssp. neomexicana var. neomexicana (Briq.) R.W. Sanders 86 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 41 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in ceremonial chant lotion. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 41 |
1897 | Agoseris aurantiaca (Hook.) Greene 102 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 47 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 47 |
2754 | Amaranthus hybridus L. 190 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 23 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used as an ingredient in a green corn medicine. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 23 |
2799 | Amaranthus retroflexus L. 193 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 23 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used as an ingredient in a green corn medicine. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 23 |
2835 | Amaranthus spinosus L. 195 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 23 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used as an ingredient in a green corn medicine. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 23 |
2845 | Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. 198 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 52 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used as an ingredient in green corn medicine. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 52 |
2890 | Ambrosia trifida L. 203 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 52 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used as an ingredient in green corn medicine. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 52 |
3171 | Amelanchier utahensis var. utahensis 217 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 30 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as emetics in various ceremonies. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 30 |
3247 | Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. 236 | Cheyenne 33 | g05 13 | 42 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Powdered flowers chewed and rubbed on body to protect and strengthen warrior. | Grinnell, George Bird, 1905, Some Cheyenne Plant Medicines, American Anthropologist 7:37-43, page 42 |
3314 | Andropogon virginicus L. 243 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 27 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used as an ingredient in green corn medicine. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 27 |
3331 | Anemone canadensis L. 248 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 382383 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Root eaten to clear throat so one can sing well in medicine lodge ceremony. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 382383 |
3477 | Angelica dawsonii S. Wats. 261 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 40 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Roots used as a religious power medicine. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 40 |
3611 | Antennaria parvifolia Nutt. 277 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 47 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used ceremonially for mad coyote bite. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 47 |
3622 | Antennaria rosea Greene 279 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 75 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Roots dried, powdered, put into hot coals at winter dance & smoke used to drive away bad spirits. | Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 75 |
3623 | Antennaria rosea Greene 279 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 75 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Roots dried, powdered, put into hot coals at winter dance & smoke used to revive passed out dancers. | Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 75 |
3757 | Apocynum androsaemifolium L. 296 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 354355 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Root, considered sacred, eaten during the medicine lodge ceremony. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 354355 |
3758 | Apocynum androsaemifolium L. 296 | Ojibwa 173 | smith32 20 | 428 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Roots eaten during the medicine lodge ceremony. The roots are also chewed to keep the other witch doctors from affecting one with an evil charm. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 428 |
3834 | Apocynum cannabinum L. 297 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 36 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a Waterway emetic. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 36 |
3838 | Apocynum cannabinum L. 297 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 39 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic and cold infusion of leaves used as a ceremonial lotion. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39 |
3880 | Apocynum ?floribundum Greene (pro sp.) [androsaemifolium ? cannabinum] 294 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 39 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39 |
3898 | Aquilegia canadensis L. 300 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 238239 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Decoction of root and leaf used as a 'power of persuasion at trade or council.' | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 238239 |
3955 | Aquilegia triternata Payson 306 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 22 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial fumigant for headaches or other severe pain. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 22 |
4190 | Arbutus menziesii Pursh 322 | Karok 105 | sg52 71 | 387 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used in the puberty ceremony. | Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 387 |
4248 | Arceuthobium campylopodum Engelm. 324 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 23 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Cold infusion used internally and externally as ceremonial medicine. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 23 |
4250 | Arceuthobium vaginatum (Willd.) J. Presl 326 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 23 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Decoction of plant used as a ceremonial medicine. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 23 |
4335 | Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng. 332 | Ojibwa 173 | r28 8 | 238 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used for medicine ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230-248, page 238 |
4445 | Arctostaphylos patula Greene 340 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 35 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 35 |
4472 | Arctostaphylos pungens Kunth 343 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 38 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 38 |
4605 | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. 347 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 38 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 38 |
4617 | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. 347 | Ojibwa 173 | r28 8 | 238 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used for medicine ceremonies. | Reagan, Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230-248, page 238 |
4834 | Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott 367 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 202 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Seed used as a magical diagnostic medicine to predict recovery or death. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 202 |
5020 | Artemisia campestris ssp. borealis var. scouleriana (Hook.) Cronq. 390 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 45 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial fumigant ingredient. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 45 |
5071 | Artemisia douglasiana Bess. 394 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 167 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves worn in nostrils by mourners when crying, the pungent odor clearing the head. | Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 167 |
5247 | Artemisia frigida Willd. 397 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 18 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in the Sun Dance ceremony. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 18 |
5265 | Artemisia frigida Willd. 397 | Delaware, Oklahoma 63 | t42 22 | 74 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves chewed as 'ceremonial' medicine. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, page 74 |
5358 | Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt. 399 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 18 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in ceremonies. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 18 |
5431 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana 401 | Cheyenne 33 | g72 39 | 190 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in ceremonies. | Grinnell, George Bird, 1972, The Cheyenne Indians - Their History and Ways of Life Vol.2, Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press, page 190 |
5444 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana 401 | Omaha 177 | g13ii 154 | 321 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in rites of lustration for man or beast. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 321 |
5513 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Dakota 61 | g13i 91 | 369 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in purificatory rites by women after menstruation. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, Some Native Nebraska Plants With Their Uses by the Dakota, Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society 17:358-70, page 369 |
5514 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Dakota 61 | g19 17 | 134135 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used to begin any ceremonial in order to drive away evil influences. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134135 |
5546 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 134135 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used to begin any ceremonial in order to drive away evil influences. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134135 |
5552 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 134135 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used to begin any ceremonial in order to drive away evil influences. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134135 |
5557 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 134135 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used to begin any ceremonial in order to drive away evil influences. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134135 |
5565 | Artemisia sp. 404 | Winnebago 280 | g19 17 | 134135 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used to begin any ceremonial in order to drive away evil influences. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 134135 |
5664 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Navajo 157 | h56 141 | 158 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used for religious and medicinal ceremonies. | Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 158 |
5696 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Paiute 183 | m53 98 | 119 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Sagebrush used by dancers to pat themselves to be made spiritually clean, curing ceremonies. | Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 119 |
5831 | Artemisia tripartita ssp. tripartita 409 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 82 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant burned to charcoal & given to patient to blacken legs & forearms in Mountain Chant Ceremony. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 82 |
5843 | Artemisia vulgaris L. 410 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 167 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves worn in nostrils by mourners when crying, the pungent odor clearing the head. | Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 167 |
6076 | Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu (Woods.) Woods. 424 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 39 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39 |
6227 | Asclepias speciosa Torr. 442 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 37 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a Eagleway, Female Shootingway, Beautyway and Beadway emetic. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 37 |
6352 | Asclepias tuberosa L. 447 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 39 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in ceremonial chant lotion. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39 |
6355 | Asclepias tuberosa L. 447 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 109 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Ceremony connected with the obtaining and distribution of this prized root. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 109 |
6444 | Astragalus allochrous Gray 460 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 31, 32 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 31, 32 |
6450 | Astragalus bisulcatus var. haydenianus (Gray) Barneby 464 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 32 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Fruit used as ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 32 |
6499 | Astragalus humistratus var. sonorae (Gray) M.E. Jones 477 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 32 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial chant lotion. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 32 |
6502 | Astragalus kentrophyta var. elatus S. Wats. 478 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 32 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Cold infusion of whole plant used as a ceremonial chant lotion. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 32 |
6525 | Astragalus mollissimus var. matthewsii (S. Wats.) Barneby 487 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 32 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 32 |
6537 | Astragalus praelongus Sheldon 491 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 32 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 32 |
6546 | Astragalus sesquiflorus S. Wats. 495 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 28 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 28 |
6555 | Astragalus sp. 496 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 80 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 80 |
6615 | Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 503 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 21 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used for kiva fires. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 21 |
6634 | Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 503 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 24 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Whole plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 24 |
6813 | Baccharis wrightii Gray 538 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 49 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 49 |
7025 | Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J. Scott 561 | Navajo 157 | h56 141 | 152 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Used by the medicine man for painting a patient during a healing ceremony. | Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 152 |
7062 | Besseya plantaginea (James) Rydb. 572 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 43 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 43 |
7540 | Brickellia californica (Torr. & Gray) Gray 625 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 45 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic following clan incest. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 45 |
7559 | Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt. 627 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 49 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 49 |
7595 | Bromus tectorum L. 641 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 15 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Infusion of plant used as a face wash for God-Impersonators. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 15 |
7702 | Calochortus aureus S. Wats. 669 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 18 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in the Flute ceremony. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 18 |
7722 | Calochortus gunnisonii S. Wats. 673 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 20 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial medicine. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 20 |
7933 | Campanula rotundifolia L. 713 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 47 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as ceremonial fumigant for various ailments. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 47 |
8071 | Carex microptera Mackenzie 744 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 19 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial emetic. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 19 |
8079 | Carex nebrascensis Dewey 745 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 7 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used in the Sun Dance and Massaum ceremonies. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 7 |
8543 | Catabrosa aquatica (L.) Beauv. 800 | Crow 60 | b05 73 | 12 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Burned as incense during certain ceremonies. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 12 |
8546 | Catabrosa aquatica (L.) Beauv. 800 | Montana Indian 151 | b05 73 | 12 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Burned as incense during certain ceremonies. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 12 |
8643 | Ceanothus fendleri Gray 809 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 31 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a Plumeway emetic. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 31 |
8645 | Ceanothus fendleri Gray 809 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 36 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Leaves and stems used as an emetic in various ceremonies. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 36 |
8692 | Ceanothus velutinus Dougl. ex Hook. 819 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 120 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Decoction of plant tops with leaves used as a cleansing solution in the sweathouse. | Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 120 |
9166 | Chamaesyce fendleri (Torr. & Gray) Small 866 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 35 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial medicine. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 35 |
9239 | Chamaesyce serpyllifolia ssp. serpyllifolia 880 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 35 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Plant used as a ceremonial medicine. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 35 |
9865 | Cicuta maculata L. 942 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 31 | Drug 2 | Ceremonial Medicine 12 | Root chewed, if dizziness occurred person would die soon, if not, long life. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 31 |
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