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id ▼ | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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9995 | Cirsium rothrockii (Gray) Petrak 969 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 46 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Roots used as a lotion or eaten raw for smallpox. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 46 |
10401 | Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf. 1031 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 283 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of smashed whole plants taken for sugar diabetes. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 283 |
10760 | Cornus alternifolia L. f. 1088 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 32 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound infusion of bark and root used for childhood diseases like worms and 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 32 |
10761 | Cornus alternifolia L. f. 1088 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 32 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of flower taken 'to sweat off flu.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 32 |
10876 | Cornus florida L. 1093 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 32 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound infusion of bark and root used for childhood diseases like worms and 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 32 |
10877 | Cornus florida L. 1093 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 32 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of flower taken 'to sweat off flu.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 32 |
10890 | Cornus florida L. 1093 | Houma 96 | speck41 49 | 55 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of root or bark scrapings taken for malaria. | Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 55 |
10897 | Cornus foemina P. Mill. 1094 | Houma 96 | speck41 49 | 55 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of root or bark scrapings taken for malaria. | Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 55 |
11483 | Croton setigerus Hook. 1145 | Concow 49 | c02 89 | 363 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant used as a bath for typhoid and other fevers. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 363 |
11494 | Croton setigerus Hook. 1145 | Neeshenam 160 | p74 81 | 376 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plants taken for ague. | Powers, Stephen, 1874, Aboriginal Botany, Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 5:373-9., page 376 |
11507 | Croton texensis (Klotzsch) Muell.-Arg. 1146 | Jemez 102 | c30 28 | 22 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of ground whole plant, roots and salt taken for grippe. | Cook, Sarah Louise, 1930, The Ethnobotany of Jemez Indians., University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 22 |
11917 | Cypripedium acaule Ait. 1205 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 42 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion taken for diabetes and hot infusion of root taken for flu. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 42 |
11936 | Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. 1208 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 42 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion taken for diabetes and hot infusion of root taken for flu. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 42 |
12025 | Dalea purpurea var. purpurea 1226 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 229 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of root taken for measles. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 229 |
12247 | Daucus carota L. 1245 | Delaware 62 | t72 97 | 35 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of full-blooming blossoms used for diabetes. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 35 |
12248 | Daucus carota L. 1245 | Delaware, Oklahoma 63 | t42 22 | 29, 76 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of fresh blossoms taken for diabetes. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1942, A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, page 29, 76 |
12257 | Daucus carota L. 1245 | Mohegan 149 | tan28 110 | 269 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of blossoms, must be full bloom, taken for diabetes. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1928, Mohegan Medicinal Practices, Weather-Lore and Superstitions, SI-BAE Annual Report #43: 264-270, page 269 |
12258 | Daucus carota L. 1245 | Mohegan 149 | t72 97 | 74, 130 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of blossoms, must be in full bloom, taken for diabetes. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 74, 130 |
12579 | Diphylleia cymosa Michx. 1311 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 59, 60 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion taken for smallpox. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59, 60 |
12609 | Dirca palustris L. 1317 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 388 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of smashed roots taken for typhoid fever. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 388 |
12651 | Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq. 1324 | Hawaiian 90 | a22 68 | 3 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves and other plants used as a wash for contagious diseases. | Akana, Akaiko, 1922, Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value, Honolulu: Pacific Book House, page 3 |
12760 | Echinacea angustifolia DC. 1348 | Dakota 61 | g19 17 | 131 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of plant applied to enlarged glands, as in mumps. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 131 |
12785 | Echinacea angustifolia DC. 1348 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 131 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of plant applied to enlarged glands, as in mumps. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 131 |
12796 | Echinacea angustifolia DC. 1348 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 131 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of plant applied to enlarged glands, as in mumps. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 131 |
12806 | Echinacea angustifolia DC. 1348 | Ponca 205 | g19 17 | 131 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of plant applied to enlarged glands, as in mumps. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 131 |
12821 | Echinacea angustifolia DC. 1348 | Winnebago 280 | g19 17 | 131 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of plant applied to enlarged glands, as in mumps. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 131 |
12840 | Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. 1350 | Cheyenne 33 | h92 30 | 38 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of roots and leaves taken for mumps and measles. | Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 38 |
12841 | Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. 1350 | Cheyenne 33 | h81 57 | 20 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of roots taken for smallpox, mumps and measles. | Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 20 |
13575 | Ericameria brachylepis (Gray) Hall 1444 | Diegueno 65 | h75 122 | 219 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of fresh or dried, entire plant taken for 'pasmo,' a malady with chills. | Hinton, Leanne, 1975, Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany, Journal of California Anthropology 2:214-222, page 219 |
13590 | Ericameria nana Nutt. 1448 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 36 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of whole plant taken for grippe and high 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 36 |
13644 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa 1454 | Cheyenne 33 | g05 13 | 39, 40 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of leaves and stem taken for smallpox. | Grinnell, George Bird, 1905, Some Cheyenne Plant Medicines, American Anthropologist 7:37-43, page 39, 40 |
13645 | Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa 1454 | Cheyenne 33 | g72 39 | 187 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves and stems taken for smallpox. | Grinnell, George Bird, 1972, The Cheyenne Indians - Their History and Ways of Life Vol.2, Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press, page 187 |
13739 | Erigeron eximius Greene 1471 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 51 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Cold infusion of plant taken and used as a lotion 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 51 |
13756 | Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus 1474 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 169 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of washed and pounded root 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 169 |
13905 | Eriodictyon californicum (Hook. & Arn.) Torr. 1488 | Round Valley Indian 214 | c02 89 | 381 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Leaves used for grippe. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 381 |
14212 | Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'H‚r. ex Ait. 1547 | Costanoan 50 | b84 16 | 8 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves used for typhoid fever. | Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 8 |
14452 | Eupatorium maculatum L. 1579 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 41, 42 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used for gout and 'dropsy.' | 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, 42 |
14481 | Eupatorium perfoliatum L. 1580 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 26 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion taken for 'ague,' colds and flu. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 26 |
14502 | Eupatorium perfoliatum L. 1580 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 458 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of smashed plants and roots taken for typhoid. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 458 |
14552 | Eupatorium purpureum L. 1582 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 41, 42 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used for gout and 'dropsy.' | 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, 42 |
14573 | Eupatorium serotinum Michx. 1584 | Houma 96 | speck41 49 | 64 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of flowers taken for typhoid fever. | Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 64 |
14612 | Euphorbia sp. 1592 | Algonquin, Quebec 7 | b80 67 | 192 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves 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 192 |
14614 | Euphorbia sp. 1592 | Cahuilla 24 | bs72 31 | 73 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant used as a bath for chicken pox and smallpox. | Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 73 |
14969 | Fragaria virginiana Duchesne 1640 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 57 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Taken 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 57 |
14979 | Fragaria virginiana Duchesne 1640 | Chippewa 38 | d28 4 | 346 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of root given for 'cholera infantum.' | Densmore, Frances, 1928, Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #44:273-379, page 346 |
15060 | Frangula californica ssp. californica 1644 | Mendocino Indian 137 | c02 89 | 368 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Bark used for grippe. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 368 |
15071 | Frangula californica ssp. californica 1644 | Yokia 285 | c02 89 | 368 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of bark taken for grippe. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 368 |
15426 | Gaillardia aristata Pursh 1675 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 181 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of lightly toasted, pounded plant mixed with bear grease and used for 'mumps.' | 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 181 |
15434 | Gaillardia pinnatifida Torr. 1676 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 86 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves taken and poultice of leaves applied for gout. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 86 |
15484 | Galium asprellum Michx. 1683 | Choctaw 39 | c51 138 | 287 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Whole plant used for measles. | 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 |
15498 | Galium concinnum Torr. & Gray 1686 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 244 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of whole plant used 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 244 |
15503 | Galium fendleri Gray 1687 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 45 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of plant taken and used as lotion 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 45 |
15541 | Gamochaeta purpurea (L.) Cabrera 1693 | Houma 96 | speck41 49 | 64 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of dried plant taken for grippe. | Speck, Frank G., 1941, A List of Plant Curatives Obtained From the Houma Indians of Louisiana, Primitive Man 14:49-75, page 64 |
15580 | Gaultheria procumbens L. 1702 | Algonquin, Tete-de-Boule 8 | ray45 113 | 129 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves used for grippe. | Raymond, Marcel., 1945, Notes Ethnobotaniques Sur Les Tete-De-Boule De Manouan, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:113-134, page 129 |
15924 | Geum sp. 1737 | Thompson 259 | steed28 33 | 476 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of root taken for diseases with rash: measles, chicken pox and smallpox. | Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 476 |
15942 | Geum triflorum Pursh 1738 | Okanagan-Colville 175 | tbk80 32 | 126 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of roots 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 126 |
15987 | Glechoma hederacea L. 1751 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 37 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion used 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 37 |
15994 | Gleditsia triacanthos L. 1752 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 43 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of pod taken 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 43 |
16001 | Gleditsia triacanthos L. 1752 | Creek 59 | t40 115 | 32 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of sprigs, thorns and branches used as a bath to prevent smallpox. | Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 32 |
16012 | Gleditsia triacanthos L. 1752 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 228229 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of bark used for measles and especially smallpox. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 228229 |
16060 | Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh 1758 | Lakota 125 | r80 108 | 46 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Roots chewed for the flu. | Rogers, Dilwyn J, 1980, Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule) People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota, St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Scoiety, page 46 |
16182 | Grindelia nana Nutt. 1776 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 81, 82 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant taken for smallpox and 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 81, 82 |
16250 | Grindelia squarrosa (Pursh) Dunal 1780 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 81, 82 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant taken for smallpox and 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 81, 82 |
16259 | Grindelia squarrosa var. serrulata (Rydb.) Steyermark 1781 | Shoshoni 232 | m90 111 | 43 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Dried upper third of plant and buds taken for smallpox. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 43 |
16342 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 82, 83 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of plant used as an antiseptic wash for 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 82, 83 |
16349 | Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt. & Rusby 1786 | Tewa 257 | rhf16 61 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant taken for gastric influenza. | Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 56 |
16431 | Hamamelis virginiana L. 1799 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 346 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of twig bark taken for cholera. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 346 |
16453 | Hedeoma drummondii Benth. 1803 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 41 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of plant taken in large quantities 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 41 |
16728 | Heliotropium curassavicum L. 1842 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 84, 85 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant tops taken to aid in 'bringing out' 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 84, 85 |
16839 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Iroquois 100 | r45ii 59 | 56 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant used for influenza. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72, page 56 |
16859 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Malecite 134 | mech59 93 | 256 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of root shoots used for smallpox. | Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 256 |
16860 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Malecite 134 | mech59 93 | 256 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion used for cholera. | Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 256 |
16868 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 249 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of root used for erysipelas. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 249 |
16871 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Mewuk 140 | m66 109 | 366 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Used for mumps. | Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 366 |
16873 | Heracleum maximum Bartr. 1851 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 57 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used for smallpox and cholera. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 57 |
17309 | Holocarpha virgata (Gray) Keck 1903 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 170171 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of plant used as a bath 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 170171 |
17310 | Holodiscus discolor (Pursh) Maxim. 1904 | Chehalis 31 | g73 25 | 33 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of seeds taken for smallpox, black measles and chicken pox. | Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 33 |
17329 | Holodiscus discolor (Pursh) Maxim. 1904 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 31 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of 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 31 |
17465 | Humulus lupulus var. lupuloides E. Small 1921 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 22 | 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 22 |
17709 | Ilex opaca Ait. 1977 | Catawba 30 | t40 115 | 37 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Decoction of leaves taken for measles. | Taylor, Linda Averill, 1940, Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes, Cambridge, MA. Botanical Museum of Harvard University, page 37 |
17710 | Ilex opaca Ait. 1977 | Catawba 30 | s37 75 | 188 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaves taken for measles. | Speck, Frank G., 1937, Catawba Medicines and Curative Practices, Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 1:179-197, page 188 |
17744 | Impatiens capensis Meerb. 1981 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 41 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaf taken 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 41 |
17788 | Impatiens pallida Nutt. 1982 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 41 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of leaf taken 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 41 |
17824 | Inula helenium L. 1984 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 466 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of powdered plants taken for fevers or typhoid. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 466 |
17879 | Ipomoea pandurata (L.) G.F.W. Mey. 1991 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 51 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of root taken for cholera morbis. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 51 |
17895 | Ipomoea pandurata (L.) G.F.W. Mey. 1991 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 419 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of dried roots taken for all kinds of diseases. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 419 |
17966 | Ipomopsis congesta ssp. congesta 1999 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 77-80 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | 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 77-80 |
17967 | Ipomopsis congesta ssp. congesta 1999 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 77-80 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Poultice of boiled, drained and mashed plant applied for erysipelas. | 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 77-80 |
18098 | Iris versicolor L. 2017 | Micmac 141 | cfh79 35 | 57 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Root used for cholera and the prevention of disease. | Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 57 |
18111 | Iris versicolor L. 2017 | Penobscot 192 | s17 103 | 308309 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of root taken for cholera. | Speck, Frank G., 1917, Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Americanists Pp. 303-321, page 308309 |
18147 | Iva xanthifolia Nutt. 2022 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 52 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion or decoction taken and used as lotion 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 52 |
18246 | Juglans nigra L. 2034 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 61 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of inner bark taken for smallpox and infusion of leaves used for goiter. | 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 |
18425 | Juniperus californica Carr. 2053 | Mahuna 131 | r54 5 | 9 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of berries taken or berries chewed for grippe fevers. | Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 9 |
18471 | Juniperus communis L. 2054 | Eskimo, Inupiat 72 | j83 54 | 110 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of berries taken or one berry a day eaten for the flu. | Jones, Anore, 1983, Nauriat Niginaqtuat = Plants That We Eat, Kotzebue, Alaska. Maniilaq Association Traditional Nutrition Program, page 110 |
18472 | Juniperus communis L. 2054 | Eskimo, Inupiat 72 | j83 54 | 110 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Infusion of berries taken or one berry a day eaten to prevent flu. | Jones, Anore, 1983, Nauriat Niginaqtuat = Plants That We Eat, Kotzebue, Alaska. Maniilaq Association Traditional Nutrition Program, page 110 |
18541 | Juniperus communis var. montana Ait. 2055 | Arapaho 17 | m90 111 | 50 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Ground needles scent used to drive smallpox away. | Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 50 |
18716 | Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg. 2058 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 92 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Heated twigs rubbed on measles eruptions to relieve the discomfort. | 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 92 |
18720 | Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg. 2058 | Shoshoni 232 | tha41 12 | 92 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Heated twigs rubbed on measles eruptions to relieve the discomfort. | 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 92 |
18800 | Juniperus occidentalis Hook. 2059 | Paiute 183 | m53 98 | 47 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Bed of hot coals and branches used for malaria and other diseases. | Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 47 |
18801 | Juniperus occidentalis Hook. 2059 | Paiute 183 | tha41 12 | 92-96 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Compound decoction of young twigs taken for smallpox. | 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 92-96 |
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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) );