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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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43688 | 4213 | 32 | 1 | 62 | 2 | 64 | Ashes 'burnt from greenswitch' used for cancer. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 62 |
24428 | 2640 | 78 | 166 | 152 | 2 | 64 | Bark and other plants used for cancer. | 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 |
24450 | 2640 | 86 | 166 | 152 | 2 | 64 | Bark and other plants used for cancer. | 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 |
24551 | 2640 | 278 | 166 | 152 | 2 | 64 | Bark and other plants used for cancer. | 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 |
30350 | 3166 | 121 | 148 | 383 | 2 | 64 | Bark used to wrap lint after treating tumors. | Boas, Franz, 1966, Kwakiutl Ethnography, Chicago. University of Chicago Press, page 383 |
8732 | 820 | 38 | 15 | 135 | 2 | 64 | Boiled roots used as an ointment for cancer. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1933, Some Chippewa Uses of Plants, Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press, page 135 |
16397 | 1796 | 32 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 64 | Bruised root with bear oil used as ointment for cancer. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 25 |
25122 | 2705 | 100 | 7 | 299 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of bark used for rectum cancer. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 299 |
37900 | 3658 | 259 | 10 | 209 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of branches and leaves taken in a one cupful dose for stomach cancer. | 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 209 |
26868 | 2933 | 259 | 10 | 100 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of needles and gum taken for cancer. It was said that if this treatment did not work, nothing would work. The decoction was taken with a spoon directly from the bark blisters and in concentrated form. | 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 100 |
19551 | 2100 | 175 | 32 | 25 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of plant taken for cancer. | 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 25 |
11856 | 1193 | 100 | 7 | 421 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of plant used as a wash and applied as poultice to leg cancer. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 421 |
8715 | 819 | 259 | 10 | 252 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of plant used for cancer. | 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 252 |
22129 | 2381 | 259 | 10 | 127 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of rhizomes taken in several doses over a period of several days for cancer. | 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 127 |
19561 | 2100 | 259 | 10 | 99 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of small pieces of branches and tops used for cancer. A decoction of plant tops was used to wash the areas affected by cancer. A second decoction of branch pieces was taken internally. It made the emaciated patient get better and gain weight. This treatment was used after a 'western' doctor diagnosed the breast cancer patient as being terminal. | 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 99 |
9670 | 916 | 100 | 7 | 407 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of stalks and roots taken for stomach cancer. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 407 |
9180 | 871 | 32 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 64 | Decoction prepared with herbs and taken for cancer. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 45 |
14581 | 1586 | 32 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 64 | Decoction prepared with herbs and taken for cancer. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 45 |
4955 | 384 | 255 | 36 | 17 | 2 | 64 | Decoction taken for cancer. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 17 |
5297 | 397 | 255 | 36 | 17 | 2 | 64 | Decoction taken for cancer. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 17 |
4950 | 383 | 255 | 36 | 17 | 2 | 64 | Decoction taken for cancers. | Kari, Priscilla Russe, 1985, Upper Tanana Ethnobotany, Anchorage. Alaska Historical Commission, page 17 |
40625 | 4011 | 259 | 10 | 224 | 2 | 64 | Infusion of heads taken for stomach cancer. | 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 224 |
19630 | 2102 | 24 | 31 | 83 | 2 | 64 | Infusion of stems and leaves used for cancer. | 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 83 |
15425 | 1675 | 259 | 10 | 181 | 2 | 64 | Infusion of whole plant used for cancer. | 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 |
41462 | 4051 | 151 | 73 | 25 | 2 | 64 | Inner bark used as an emollient for tumors. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 25 |
7368 | 592 | 92 | 41 | 29 | 2 | 64 | Leaflets chewed for internal cancer. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 29 |
10785 | 1088 | 138 | 51 | 32, 33 | 2 | 64 | One reported case: poultice of bark plus something else cured facial cancer. | Smith, Huron H., 1923, Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:1-174, page 32, 33 |
24904 | 2682 | 151 | 73 | 6 | 2 | 64 | Parasite (cancer root) on sweet sage roots used for cancer. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 6 |
15352 | 1667 | 125 | 108 | 27 | 2 | 64 | Plant pulverized into a salve and applied to scrofulous swellings. | 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 27 |
5571 | 406 | 66 | 94 | 326 | 2 | 64 | Plant used as an antitumor agent. | Smith, G. Warren, 1973, Arctic Pharmacognosia, Arctic 26:324-333, page 326 |
4031 | 318 | 100 | 7 | 394 | 2 | 64 | Plant used for cancer. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 394 |
10040 | 975 | 100 | 7 | 475 | 2 | 64 | Plant used for cancer. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 475 |
39567 | 3902 | 267 | 14 | 187 | 2 | 64 | Plant used for cancer. | Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 187 |
11539 | 1151 | 95 | 82 | 301 | 2 | 64 | Plant used for the cancer and growth in the throat. | Colton, Harold S., 1974, Hopi History And Ethnobotany, IN D. A. Horr (ed.) Hopi Indians. Garland: New York., page 301 |
31796 | 3241 | 167 | 169 | 79 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of bruised plant applied to 'tumors.' | Swan, James Gilchrist, 1869, The Indians of Cape Flattery ... Washington Territory, Washington, DC. Smithsonian Institution, page 79 |
61 | 2 | 100 | 59 | 37 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of gum and dried beaver kidneys applied for cancer. | Rousseau, Jacques, 1945, Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga, Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72, page 37 |
1644 | 78 | 32 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of pounded nuts used for tumors and infections. | 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 |
25652 | 2770 | 139 | 21 | 247 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of root applied to tumors. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 247 |
40512 | 3982 | 32 | 1 | 56, 57 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of root used for cancer. | 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, 57 |
9297 | 882 | 121 | 63 | 287 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of seeds, down and oil applied to wound after cutting open the tumor. | 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 287 |
11463 | 1138 | 139 | 21 | 213 | 2 | 64 | Poultice of whole plant applied 'to open up a carbuncle or cancer.' | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 213 |
40695 | 4019 | 32 | 1 | 59 | 2 | 64 | Poultice used for 'putrid ulcers, tumors and inflamed parts.' | 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 |
4936 | 381 | 32 | 1 | 58 | 2 | 64 | Poultice used for cancer and to draw out blood or poisonous matter. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 58 |
11861 | 1194 | 32 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 64 | Root used for cancer. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 30 |
19359 | 2082 | 32 | 1 | 52 | 2 | 64 | Strong decoction used as a wash for cancer. | 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 |
40623 | 4011 | 231 | 62 | 119 | 2 | 64 | Teaspoonful of powder mixed in boiling water and taken for cancer. | Carr, Lloyd G. and Carlos Westey, 1945, Surviving Folktales & Herbal Lore Among the Shinnecock Indians, Journal of American Folklore 58:113-123, page 119 |
9580 | 913 | 32 | 1 | 62 | 2 | 64 | Used as a wash for cancer and ulcers. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 62 |
25135 | 2706 | 32 | 1 | 56 | 2 | 64 | Used for cancer 'when it is first started.' | 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 |
25192 | 2712 | 32 | 1 | 56 | 2 | 64 | Used for cancer 'when it is first started.' | 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 |
17502 | 1928 | 32 | 1 | 36 | 2 | 64 | Used for cancer. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 36 |
17481 | 1926 | 32 | 1 | 54 | 2 | 64 | Used for tumors. | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 54 |
31452 | 3214 | 92 | 41 | 32 | 2 | 64 | Young shoots eaten as medicine for 'troubles with one's insides,' such as cancer of the womb. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 32 |
29102 | 3085 | 92 | 41 | 32 | 2 | 64 | Young shoots or fiddleheads chewed for cancer of the womb. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 32 |
12691 | 1335 | 92 | 41 | 29 | 2 | 64 | Young shoots used cancer of the womb. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 29 |
6572 | 498 | 92 | 41 | 29 | 2 | 64 | Young, unfurling fronds eaten for internal ailments, such as cancer of the womb. | Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 29 |