. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). HERBS 57 plant of red Lobelia for syphilis and for expelling or destroying in- testinal worms. An overdose acts as a narcotic. Milky juice of the plant is poisonous. It is a diaphoretic (increasing per- spiration). Materia Medica suggests using the Blue Lobelia for prostration following influenza, and the Red Lobelia to help sticking pains in the chest on taking a long breath. The Shoshones made a tea of Lobelia for use as an emetic (to cause vomiting) and a H-51.
. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). HERBS 57 plant of red Lobelia for syphilis and for expelling or destroying in- testinal worms. An overdose acts as a narcotic. Milky juice of the plant is poisonous. It is a diaphoretic (increasing per- spiration). Materia Medica suggests using the Blue Lobelia for prostration following influenza, and the Red Lobelia to help sticking pains in the chest on taking a long breath. The Shoshones made a tea of Lobelia for use as an emetic (to cause vomiting) and a H-51. thia sp., MULE'S EARS, Wye- Sunflower Fam. Most Wyethia grow in dense clumps in fairly dry, open places, from 1'- 31/2' tall; generally with 1 to few large, yellow (white in 1 species), flower heads; basal leaves usu- ally quite large. In the Common Mountain Mule Ears, W. mollis, (illustrated), the foliage is white Mead. to Chap. woolly when young, turning „„ greenish when older. Stock and ccf deer eat the flowers. mcf Indians used the roots as food, ., ^ „^ ^ Most States fermenting them on heated stones w. Can. in the ground for 1 or 2 days. The flavor is sweet and agreeable. Roots were also used as a poultice for relief of pains and bruises. A decoction of leaves was used as a bath, producing profuse sweating. It should never be tak- en internally, as it is considered poisonous. Wyethia is listed in homeopathic medicines as used for pharyngitis (a throat irritation common among singers and speakers) and for hay fever. Klamath Indians used the mashed roots as a poultice for swel- lings. Nevada Indians ground the resinous roots and soaked them in water to make a solution that was taken as an emetic (to induce vomiting). Often, for this purpose, they boiled the roots until the solution became quite concentrated. A combination remedy is to make a tea by boiling the chopped roots with the end twigs of the juniper (Juniperus utahensis), and take for colds and Please
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