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id ▼ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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3004 | Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roemer 204 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 120 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of branch ashes and pine branch or bud ashes taken to prevent having children. | 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 |
3032 | Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roemer 204 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 253 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of plant and bitter cherry taken as birth control. | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 253 |
3843 | Apocynum cannabinum L. 297 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 72 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of roots taken during monthly periods to become permanently sterile. | 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 72 |
3985 | Arabis sparsiflora Nutt. 314 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 91 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant used for birth control. | 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 91 |
4859 | Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum 369 | Iroquois 100 | r45ii 59 | 69 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of rhizomes used by women for temporary sterility. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72, page 69 |
6291 | Asclepias syriaca L. 446 | Iroquois 100 | r45ii 59 | 59 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of dried, pulverized roots and rhizomes taken by women for temporary sterility. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72, page 59 |
6824 | Bahia dissecta (Gray) Britt. 540 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 49 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Compound decoction of plant taken as contraceptive. | 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 |
7302 | Betula papyrifera Marsh. 580 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 189 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Bark used for contraception. One informant recalled a case in which a woman in childbirth did not want any more children. An old woman told her to take the afterbirth, stick it with an old bone awl, wrap it in fishnet and then in a piece of birch bark and place it high up on a particular kind of tree. The patient was then given an infusion of bitter cherry or saskatoon wood and after that had no more children | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 189 |
8476 | Castilleja linariifolia Benth. 788 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 35, 91 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of plant used as a contraceptive. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 35, 91 |
8477 | Castilleja linariifolia Benth. 788 | Hopi 95 | c74 82 | 297 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of plant used to prevent conception. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 297 |
8493 | Castilleja linariifolia Benth. 788 | Tewa 257 | c74 82 | 297 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of plant used to prevent conception. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 297 |
9365 | Chelone glabra L. 892 | Malecite 134 | mech59 93 | 258 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of plants used to prevent pregnancy. | Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 258 |
9366 | Chelone glabra L. 892 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 55 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Herb used to prevent pregnancy. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 55 |
9866 | Cicuta maculata L. 942 | Cherokee 32 | t40 115 | 45 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Roots chewed and swallowed by women as form of contraception and become sterile. | Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 45 |
9867 | Cicuta maculata L. 942 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 31 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Roots eaten for four consecutive days 'to become sterile forever.' | 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 |
9978 | Cirsium ochrocentrum Gray 964 | Zuni 291 | cb80 157 | 374 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of root taken by both partners as a contraceptive. | Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye, 1980, A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388, page 374 |
10190 | Claytonia virginica L. 1012 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 318 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Eating raw plants permanently prevented conception. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 318 |
10235 | Clematis ligusticifolia Nutt. 1019 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 117 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Stalk and roots used to make a women's contraceptive. | 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 117 |
11094 | Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 1102 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 96 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of inner bark and other bark taken after childbirth to prevent frequent pregnancies. | 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 96 |
11796 | Cuscuta sp. 1177 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 63 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant, known as 'woman without children,' eaten by women as a contraceptive. | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 63 |
13423 | Equisetum laevigatum A. Braun 1424 | Costanoan 50 | b84 16 | 4 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of plant used as a contraceptive. | Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 4 |
13478 | Equisetum sp. 1428 | Costanoan 50 | b84 16 | 4 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of plant used as a contraceptive. | Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 4 |
13822 | Erigeron speciosus var. macranthus (Nutt.) Cronq. 1484 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 50 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Compound decoction of plant used as a contraceptive. | 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 50 |
14058 | Eriogonum jamesii Benth. 1514 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 23 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Root used as a contraceptive. | 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 |
14336 | Erythronium americanum Ker-Gawl. 1560 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 282 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Raw plants, except the roots, taken by young girls to prevent conception. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 282 |
15486 | Galium boreale L. 1684 | Choctaw 39 | c51 138 | 287 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of whole plant used to prevent pregnancy. | Campbell, T.N., 1951, Medicinal Plants Used by Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 41(9):285-290, page 287 |
15894 | Geum macrophyllum Willd. 1735 | Chehalis 31 | g73 25 | 37 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of leaves taken to avoid conception. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 37 |
16750 | Hepatica nobilis var. acuta (Pursh) Steyermark 1849 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 328 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of plants taken to prevent conception. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 328 |
18133 | Iva axillaris Pursh 2021 | Mahuna 131 | r54 5 | 67 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant used to prevent conception. | Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 67 |
18757 | Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg. 2058 | Zuni 291 | cb80 157 | 373 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of leaves taken to prevent conception. | Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye, 1980, A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388, page 373 |
19130 | Juniperus sp. 2063 | Shoshoni 232 | m90 111 | 46 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of berries taken on three successive days for birth control. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 46 |
20580 | Lithospermum incisum Lehm. 2216 | Navajo 157 | h56 141 | 161 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant used as an oral contraceptive. | 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 161 |
20616 | Lithospermum ruderale Dougl. ex Lehm. 2219 | Navajo 157 | j87 146 | 51 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant used as an oral birth control. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 51 |
20621 | Lithospermum ruderale Dougl. ex Lehm. 2219 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 102 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Cold water infusion of root taken daily for six months as a contraceptive. | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 102 |
20622 | Lithospermum ruderale Dougl. ex Lehm. 2219 | Shoshoni 232 | m90 111 | 46 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of root taken for six months as a permanent birth control. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 46 |
20623 | Lithospermum ruderale Dougl. ex Lehm. 2219 | Shoshoni 232 | j87 146 | 51 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant used as an oral birth control. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 51 |
21094 | Lonicera ciliosa (Pursh) Poir. ex DC. 2259 | Chehalis 31 | g73 25 | 48 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of leaves taken as a contraceptive. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 48 |
21957 | Mahonia repens (Lindl.) G. Don 2376 | Flathead 76 | h92 30 | 18 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of roots used as a contraceptive. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 18 |
22071 | Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum 2381 | Costanoan 50 | b84 16 | 28 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of leaves used as a contraceptive. | Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 28 |
26479 | Phlox stansburyi (Torr.) Heller 2888 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 40 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of leaves taken during menstruation as a contraceptive. | 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 40 |
27825 | Pinus monophylla Torr. & Fr‚m. 2965 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 50 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Cooked pitch taken by women who wanted no more children. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 50 |
29157 | Pontederia cordata L. 3088 | Malecite 134 | mech59 93 | 259 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of plant used to prevent pregnancy. | Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 259 |
29158 | Pontederia cordata L. 3088 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 59 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Herbs used to prevent pregnancy. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 59 |
33212 | Rhus trilobata Nutt. 3352 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 35, 36 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of leaves taken to induce impotency, as a means of contraception. | 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, 36 |
33788 | Ricinus communis L. 3403 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 60 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Plant used by women to become sterile. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 60 |
35429 | Rumex obtusifolius L. 3489 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 312 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Used as a contraceptive. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 312 |
38611 | Sphaeralcea ambigua Gray 3770 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 141142 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of root taken as a contraceptive, 'uncertain report.' | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 141142 |
38612 | Sphaeralcea ambigua Gray 3770 | Shoshoni 232 | m90 111 | 46 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of root taken as birth control. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 46 |
39312 | Tanacetum vulgare L. 3892 | Malecite 134 | mech59 93 | 259 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of plant used to prevent pregnancy. | Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 259 |
39315 | Tanacetum vulgare L. 3892 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 62 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Herbs used to prevent pregnancy. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 62 |
40443 | Toxicodendron diversilobum (Torr. & Gray) Greene 3972 | Karok 105 | sg52 71 | 385 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Leaf swallowed in the spring as a prophylactic. | Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford, 1952, Karok Ethnobotany, Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392, page 385 |
42104 | Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx. 4079 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 63 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of stems used to prevent pregnancy. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 63 |
42581 | Veratrum californicum Dur. 4102 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 147148 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of root taken as a contraceptive 'to insure permanent sterility.' | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 147148 |
42582 | Veratrum californicum Dur. 4102 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 147148 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of root taken by both men and women as a contraceptive. | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 147148 |
42608 | Veratrum californicum Dur. 4102 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 147148 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of root taken as a contraceptive 'to insure permanent sterility.' | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 147148 |
42609 | Veratrum californicum Dur. 4102 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 147148 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of root taken by both men and women as a contraceptive. | Train, Percy, James R. Henrichs and W. Andrew Archer, 1941, Medicinal Uses of Plants by Indian Tribes of Nevada, Washington DC. U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 147148 |
42610 | Veratrum californicum Dur. 4102 | Shoshoni 232 | m90 111 | 46 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of fresh or cured root taken for birth control to ensure sterility for life. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 46 |
42623 | Veratrum californicum Dur. 4102 | Washo 276 | m90 111 | 46 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of fresh or cured root taken for birth control to ensure sterility for life. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 46 |
43180 | Viburnum recognitum Fern. 4137 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 447 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Decoction of twigs taken by women to prevent conception. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 447 |
43182 | Viburnum sp. 4138 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 445 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Infusion of plant taken as a contraceptive. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 445 |
44143 | Yucca glauca Nutt. 4230 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 21 | Drug 2 | Contraceptive 126 | Rotten root used to make suds taken to induce menopause. | 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 21 |
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CREATE TABLE uses ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, species INTEGER NOT NULL, tribe INTEGER NOT NULL, source INTEGER NOT NULL, pageno TEXT NOT NULL, use_category INTEGER, use_subcategory INTEGER, notes TEXT, rawsource TEXT NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY(use_category) REFERENCES use_categories(id), FOREIGN KEY(use_subcategory) REFERENCES use_subcategories(id), FOREIGN KEY(tribe) REFERENCES tribes(id), FOREIGN KEY(species) REFERENCES species(id), FOREIGN KEY(source) REFERENCES sources(id) );