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id ▼ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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267 | Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. 6 | Gitksan 78 | g92 166 | 152 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of bark or inner bark used for flu. | Gottesfeld, Leslie M. J., 1992, The Importance of Bark Products in the Aboriginal Economies of Northwestern British Columbia, Canada, Economic Botany 46(2):148-157, page 152 |
317 | Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt. 6 | Wet'suwet'en 278 | g92 166 | 152 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of bark or inner bark used for flu. | Gottesfeld, Leslie M. J., 1992, The Importance of Bark Products in the Aboriginal Economies of Northwestern British Columbia, Canada, Economic Botany 46(2):148-157, page 152 |
407 | Acalypha virginica L. 19 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 61 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used for pox. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 61 |
431 | Acer circinatum Pursh 22 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 145 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Wood burned to charcoal, mixed with water and brown sugar and taken for polio. The wood was always taken early in the morning from the sunrise side of the tree. | 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 145 |
590 | Acer pensylvanicum L. 31 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 53 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Bark used for 'grippe.' | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 53 |
612 | Acer rubrum L. 32 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 44 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Hot infusion of bark given for measles. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 44 |
640 | Acer saccharinum L. 34 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 44 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Hot infusion of bark given for measles. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 44 |
728 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Abnaki 1 | r47 84 | 154 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for grippe. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, page 154 |
835 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 470 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used as a miscellaneous disease remedy. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 470 |
861 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Lummi 129 | g73 25 | 49 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of flowers taken to prevent mumps. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 49 |
894 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 166 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves and flowers used externally for influenza. | 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 166 |
935 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Paiute, Northern 185 | f89 50 | 128 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of roots taken for flu. | Fowler, Catherine S., 1989, Willards Z. Park's Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada 1933-1940, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 128 |
973 | Achillea millefolium L. 38 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 166 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of flowers taken in small quantities for influenza. | 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 166 |
1022 | Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis DC. 42 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 210 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves and blossoms taken for ague. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 210 |
1293 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Iroquois 100 | r45ii 59 | 70 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of powdered roots taken for grippe with chills. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72, page 70 |
1304 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Lakota 125 | k90 156 | 48 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of roots taken for diabetes. | Kraft, Shelly Katheren, 1990, Recent Changes in the Ethnobotany of Standing Rock Indian Reservation, University of North Dakota, M.A. Thesis, page 48 |
1325 | Acorus calamus L. 55 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 53, 54 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used for cholera, smallpox and other epidemics. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 53, 54 |
1556 | Adiantum pedatum L. 71 | Cherokee 32 | w47 105 | 74 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of whole plant used as an emetic in cases of ague. | Witthoft, John, 1947, An Early Cherokee Ethnobotanical Note, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 37(3):73-75, page 74 |
1557 | Adiantum pedatum L. 71 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 34 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of whole plant given as an emetic 'in case of ague and fever.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 34 |
1717 | Agastache urticifolia (Benth.) Kuntze 88 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 166 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction taken for measles. | 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 166 |
1874 | Ageratina altissima var. altissima 98 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Taken for ague. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 56 |
2001 | Alisma plantago-aquatica L. 128 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 26 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Stem base taken for stomach flu. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 26 |
2054 | Allium canadense L. 138 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 35 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for scurvy. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 35 |
2099 | Allium cepa L. 140 | Shinnecock 231 | cw45 62 | 120 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Onion placed in a sick room to draw out flu. | Carr, Lloyd G. and Carlos Westey, 1945, Surviving Folktales & Herbal Lore Among the Shinnecock Indians, Journal of American Folklore 58:113-123, page 120 |
2218 | Allium sativum L. 157 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 35 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for scurvy. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 35 |
2249 | Allium sp. 160 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 69 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of bulbs taken for a disease which caused a swollen penis and severe constipation. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 69 |
2313 | Allium vineale L. 166 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 35 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for scurvy. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 35 |
2506 | Alnus rubra Bong. 172 | Hesquiat 92 | te82 41 | 62 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of bark used to make a medicine for internal ailments. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 62 |
2630 | Alnus sp. 174 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 54 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Bark used for diphtheria. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 54 |
2941 | Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roemer 204 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 28 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of sticks taken for flu. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 28 |
3278 | Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. 236 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 167 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of dried flowers taken for rheumatic fever. | 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 167 |
3387 | Anemopsis californica (Nutt.) Hook. & Arn. 255 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 11 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of broken roots taken for diabetes. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 11 |
3425 | Angelica atropurpurea L. 259 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 23 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | 'Root tonic' taken for ague. | 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 |
3439 | Angelica atropurpurea L. 259 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 401 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of smashed roots taken for the flu. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 401 |
3472 | Angelica breweri Gray 260 | Washo 276 | tha41 12 | 34, 35 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of scraped, dried root taken for influenza. | 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 34, 35 |
3481 | Angelica dawsonii S. Wats. 261 | Blackfoot 23 | h74 26 | 75 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of roots applied to mumps swellings. | Hellson, John C., 1974, Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 75 |
3828 | Apocynum cannabinum L. 297 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 201 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used as a universal remedy for many things, especially dropsy and ague. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 201 |
4040 | Aralia nudicaulis L. 318 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 394 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for sugar diabetes. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 394 |
4082 | Aralia racemosa L. 319 | Algonquin, Quebec 7 | b80 67 | 204 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of roots and spurge taken for sugar diabetes. | Black, Meredith Jean, 1980, Algonquin Ethnobotany: An Interpretation of Aboriginal Adaptation in South Western Quebec, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series Number 65, page 204 |
4187 | Arbutus menziesii Pursh 322 | Cowichan 52 | tb71 23 | 82 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of bark used for diabetes. | Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 82 |
4273 | Arctium minus Bernh. 328 | Abnaki 1 | r47 84 | 154 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for grippe. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1947, Ethnobotanique Abenakise, Archives de Folklore 11:145-182, page 154 |
4882 | Aristolochia serpentaria L. 374 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 55 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used as a tonic for typhus fevers and taken for ague. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 55 |
4883 | Aristolochia serpentaria L. 374 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 55 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for 'black-yellow' diseases. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 55 |
4924 | Armoracia rusticana P.G. Gaertn. 377 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 342 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for sugar diabetes. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 342 |
4945 | Artemisia absinthium L. 382 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 75 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of pounded leaves applied for flu. | 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 |
4954 | Artemisia alaskana Rydb. 383 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 17 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction taken for diabetes. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 17 |
4959 | Artemisia arctica Less. 384 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 17 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction taken for diabetes. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 17 |
5044 | Artemisia carruthii Wood ex Carruth. 393 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 48 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Cold infusion of leaves taken for fever, influenza and cough. | 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 48 |
5077 | Artemisia douglasiana Bess. 394 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 39 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Burning plant used as an inhalant for grippe. | 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 39 |
5233 | Artemisia frigida Willd. 397 | Blackfoot 23 | j87 146 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of roots and tops taken for mountain fever. | Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 56 |
5286 | Artemisia frigida Willd. 397 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 76 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves and branches taken for flu. | 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 76 |
5301 | Artemisia frigida Willd. 397 | Tanana, Upper 255 | k85 36 | 17 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction taken for diabetes. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 17 |
5418 | Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt. 399 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 170 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Hot decoction of plant taken, especially by the elderly, for influenza. | 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 170 |
5465 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana 401 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 40-42 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Branches used as a bed in a sweatbath to steam out infection of influenza. | 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 40-42 |
5498 | Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana 401 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 40-42 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of branches taken for influenza. | 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 40-42 |
5591 | Artemisia tilesii Ledeb. 406 | Tanaina 254 | s73 94 | 329 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for diseases from rheumatism to tuberculosis. | Smith, G. Warren, 1973, Arctic Pharmacognosia, Arctic 26:324-333, page 329 |
5640 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 13 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of leaves taken for influenza or bad colds. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 13 |
5717 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 44-47 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of leaves taken for malarial fever. | 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 44-47 |
5755 | Artemisia tridentata Nutt. 407 | Sanpoil 225 | r32 44 | 217 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of pulverized leaves and stems taken for 'la grippe.' | Ray, Verne F., 1932, The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 5, page 217 |
5875 | Aruncus dioicus (Walt.) Fern. 414 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 257 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of washed roots taken for influenza. It was said that too much of the decoction should not be taken because it would make you sick. | 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 257 |
5879 | Aruncus dioicus var. acuminatus (Rydb.) Rydb. ex Hara 415 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 457 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of roots taken for colds and influenza. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 457 |
5886 | Aruncus dioicus var. vulgaris (Maxim.) Hara 416 | Bella Coola 21 | s29 9 | 59 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of root in grease of mountain goat taken for smallpox. | Smith, Harlan I., 1929, Materia Medica of the Bella Coola and Neighboring Tribes of British Columbia, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 56:47-68, page 59 |
5894 | Aruncus dioicus var. vulgaris (Maxim.) Hara 416 | Lummi 129 | g73 25 | 33 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Raw leaves chewed for smallpox. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 33 |
5905 | Aruncus dioicus var. vulgaris (Maxim.) Hara 416 | Nitinaht 166 | ttco83 101 | 116 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of pounded roots taken for measle-like illnesses. | 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 116 |
5968 | Asarum canadense L. 421 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 35, 36 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Taken for typhus fever, 'ague and fever.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 35, 36 |
5997 | Asarum canadense L. 421 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 308 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of roots taken for typhoid, measles and scarlet fever. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 308 |
6176 | Asclepias sp. 441 | Delaware 62 | t72 97 | 39 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of pounded roots used for epilepsy in those born during certain phases of the moon. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 39 |
6236 | Asclepias speciosa Torr. 442 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 48 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Hot decoction of root taken to 'bring out the rash of measles.' | 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 48 |
6354 | Asclepias tuberosa L. 447 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 39 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for influenza. | 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 |
6447 | Astragalus americanus (Hook.) M.E. Jones 461 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 31 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Roots chewed for stomach flu. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 31 |
6504 | Astragalus kentrophyta var. kentrophyta 479 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for rabies. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 56 |
6533 | Astragalus pattersonii Gray 489 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 27 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for mumps. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 27 |
6614 | Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. 503 | Havasupai 89 | ws85 2 | 217 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Leaves made into a soapy lather and used for itches or rashes, such as chickenpox or measles. | Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 217 |
6752 | Aureolaria pedicularia var. pedicularia 525 | Chickasaw 35 | c51 138 | 289 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used as an anti-scorbutic. | 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 289 |
7363 | Bignonia capreolata L. 591 | Houma 96 | speck41 49 | 65 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of mashed root used as a gargle for diphtheria. | Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 65 |
7469 | Brassica napus L. 617 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 46 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Taken for 'ague.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 46 |
7479 | Brassica napus L. 617 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 55 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Bark used for grippe and smallpox. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 55 |
7483 | Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J. Koch 618 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 46 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Taken for 'ague.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 46 |
7561 | Brickellia grandiflora (Hook.) Nutt. 627 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 49 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Cold infusion of dried leaves taken for influenza. | 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 |
7656 | Calla palustris L. 662 | Gitksan 78 | s29 9 | 53 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of roots taken for influenza and hemorrhage. | Smith, Harlan I., 1929, Materia Medica of the Bella Coola and Neighboring Tribes of British Columbia, National Museum of Canada Bulletin 56:47-68, page 53 |
8268 | Carya alba (L.) Nutt. ex Ell. 762 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 38 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for poliomyelitis pain. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 38 |
8315 | Carya laciniosa (Michx. f.) G. Don 766 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 38 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for poliomyelitis pain. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 38 |
8384 | Carya pallida (Ashe) Engl. & Graebn. 768 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 38 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for poliomyelitis pain. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 38 |
8413 | Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh. 774 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 29 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion given for typhoid. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 29 |
8601 | Ceanothus americanus L. 807 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 382 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of plants taken for sugar diabetes. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 382 |
8706 | Ceanothus velutinus Dougl. ex Hook. 819 | Shuswap 233 | palmer75 92 | 65 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plants taken for the flu. | Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 65 |
8823 | Centaurium venustum (Gray) B.L. Robins. 831 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 168 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of flowers and leaves taken for ague. | 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 168 |
8934 | Cercocarpus ledifolius Nutt. 841 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 53-55 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of inner bark taken for diphtheria. | 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 53-55 |
9052 | Chamaebatia foliolosa Benth. 855 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 168 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves taken for chicken pox, measles and smallpox. | 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 168 |
9426 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 98 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Leaves included in the diet for scurvy or to prevent it. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 98 |
9427 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 47 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant considered a medicinal food used to prevent or cure scurvy. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 47 |
9461 | Chenopodium botrys L. 896 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 41 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Warm infusion of root taken in winter for 'fever diseases.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 41 |
9591 | Chimaphila maculata (L.) Pursh 913 | Nanticoke 154 | t42 22 | 84 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for ague. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, page 84 |
9632 | Chimaphila umbellata (L.) W. Bart. 915 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Herb used for smallpox. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 56 |
9642 | Chimaphila umbellata (L.) W. Bart. 915 | Nanticoke 154 | t42 22 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of plant taken for ague. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, page 56 |
9786 | Chrysothamnus greenei (Gray) Greene 933 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 83 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of plant tops used as a wash for chickenpox and measles eruptions. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 83 |
9815 | Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. 935 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 57, 58 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Hot compound decoction of plant taken for influenza. | 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 57, 58 |
9846 | Cicuta douglasii (DC.) Coult. & Rose 941 | Kwakiutl 121 | tb73 63 | 276 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Roots smashed, steamed, peeled, powdered, mixed with oil and taken for any serious disease. | 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 276 |
9901 | Cinna arundinacea L. 948 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 274 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of plants taken for sugar diabetes. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 274 |
9982 | Cirsium ochrocentrum Gray 964 | Zuni 291 | cb80 157 | 374 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of fresh or dried root taken three times a day for diabetes. | 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 |
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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) );