. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). 62 HERBS Grass Cult. Wash. Ore. Calif. W. Can. Str. Wd. Oak MCF CCF Cult. Pin-Jun. Wash. Ida. Ore. Calif. Nev. Utah N. M. Ariz. reddish flowers; flowers have numerous rounded pearly heads on top of stems with woolly papery feeling. It is poor forage. Indians used leaves for catarrhal infections and decoction of the leaves for intestinal and pulmonary catarrah (inflamation of membranes); also for bruises. The bruised plant assists in heal- ing wounds, and an infusion (steep
. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). 62 HERBS Grass Cult. Wash. Ore. Calif. W. Can. Str. Wd. Oak MCF CCF Cult. Pin-Jun. Wash. Ida. Ore. Calif. Nev. Utah N. M. Ariz. reddish flowers; flowers have numerous rounded pearly heads on top of stems with woolly papery feeling. It is poor forage. Indians used leaves for catarrhal infections and decoction of the leaves for intestinal and pulmonary catarrah (inflamation of membranes); also for bruises. The bruised plant assists in heal- ing wounds, and an infusion (steeping leaves in cold water) is used for increasing perspiration. H-59. COAST TARWEED, Madia sa- tiva. ll/S'-3' tall, aromatic, glandular herb, with large,, yellow or white flower heads; stout stem rigidly branched. The oil expressed from the seed is made into cake for cattle feed. It is also a good table oil and a lubricant. The oily content of the seed is very nutritious and the Indians would gather them in summer and grind into a fine meal to be eaten dry. They also scalded the seeds, yielding an oil used in soap making. For their medi- cine, flowering tops were a poison oak remedy and a tonic of the leaves was re- ported useful in treatment of inflammatory rheumatism. Northern California Indians made a cough syrup by drying the buds, H-60, COMMON THOROUGHWORT or BONE- SET, Eupatorium sp. l'-4' tall herbs, with hairy branches at top; flowers in nodding groups of heads or flat-topped clusters, white, pink or red; no ray flowers; leaves mainly opposite, especially in white- flowered species. Flowering tops gathered in full bloom and stripped from stalk, are dried and kept to make into bitter tonic or tea. Tonic is cathartic and emetic (causing vomiting). The tea is taken cold as a tonic; a hot infusion is used for malarial fever. Indians called it Ague Plant due to its malarial healing Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have be
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