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1 Finished Constipation
Chicory, Cichorium intybus
Grows in Eastern Deciduous Forest and Tallgrass Prairie
Chicory is best found from late summer to best in fall
This plant grows nearly everywhere
Uses
Constipation
Made by getting juices from plant
Uses active chemical and Tonic (Relieving bowls and increasing appetite)
Uses active chemical Inulin
C6nH10n+2O5n+1
Edible Root and Leaves
2 Finished Blood loss
Trumpet Creeper, Campsis radicans
Tall grass prairie
Best in summer and fall
Root is diaphoretic(Used to produce perspiration) and vulenary.
The flowers and the whole plant are blood tonic, and depurative diuretic.
Tannin (Found in plants) induces body to produce blood
C76H52O46
3 Food poisoning
Daisy Fleabane, Erigeron annuus
-tall grass prairie
-dry, mountainous areas, grasslands
-summer
leaf extracts contain caffeic acid which is an active compound that has antioxidative(inhibits oxidation) and neuroprotective effects on neuronal cells.
C9H8O4 Caffeic acid
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Blue vervain, Verbena hastata
-late summer
-tall grass prairie
Used as diaphoretic (Helps you pee and relieve fluids) (food poisoning)
Plant is smashed and used and applied to a drink
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C17H24O10 Verbenalin
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5 Finished Catalyst
Red Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
Deciduous Forest
-Root boiled with Cichorium intybus liquid was used to treat fever sores(Blisters)
The mashed roots, stems, leaves, blossoms were mashed into liquid and used to treat cramps
-Added as Catalyst to other medicines to add strength
Infusion of roots treats Typhoid.
Plant Organ
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Properties
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How its used
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Roots |
Analgesic, Anthelmintic, Antispasmodic, and Stomachic
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A tea made from roots has been used in the treatment of epilepsy, syphilis, typhoid, stomach aches, cramps, and worms.
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Leaves |
Analgesic and Febrifuge
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A tea made from leaves is used for treatment of croup, nosebleeds, colds, fevers, and headaches
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C22H27NO2 Lobeline
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Ironweed, Vernonia missurica
-tall grass prairie
season: mid-summer, fall
found on the side of the roads, prairies
Uses
Toothache & Sore throat
This is how you prepare decoction The seeds are crushed well and eight parts of water are added to it. It is boiled so that the contents get reduced to 1/4th. Decoction is now ready for consumption.
C18H32O3 Vernolic acid
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Purple Cone Flower, Echinacea purpurea
all areas
Blooms in summer and fall
Painkiller, toothache, cough, cold, snakebites.
Cough medicine and Gastro-Intestinal aid.
Blooms in summer and fall
Echinacoside
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Common Milk Weed, Asclepias syriaca
Summer to late fall
Uses
Gallstones
Preparation Infusion equal parts milkweed and althea steep one teaspoon into boiling water. 3 cups a day
Linolenic acid CHEMICAL
Milkweed is useful for kidney problems, dropsy, scrofula, conditions of the bladder, water retention, asthma, stomach ailments, and gallstones, female disorders, arthritis, bronchitis. Causes increase in perspiration, thus reducing fever. Some Native Americans rubbed the (latex) juice on warts, moles, ringworms; others drank an infusion of the rootstock to produce temporary sterility or as a laxative. A folk cancer remedy.
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Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata
all areas
Uses
Antimalarial & antibiotic (Leaves or roots)
Tonic (Leaves or roots)
Treat infections
demulcent, (pods),an astringent (leaves), or a purgative.
This plant is gaining in popularity as a medicinal remedy among SE Asia’s residents, who use it to prevent Dengue fever and other infectious tropical ailments. USA pioneers used them as well, the Shakers in particular, to treat fevers, and infections.
C. fasciculata is a somewhat obscure herbal remedy in the USA nowadays, but used to be of very high value to native tribals and settlers in the S USA who had malaria and bacterial outbreaks, and no modern antimalarials or antibacterials. Cherokee, Coahuiltec, Aztec, Apache, Navajo, Hopi, and Seminole people still use this plant in several ways medicinally… and I believe other tribes may do so as well.
Partridge pea was used as a tonic for endurance. The leaves were used to make a tea to prevent fainting from overexertion. Aztec and Coahuiltec marathon runners bearing urgent messages used the tea before setting off on their journey, as did Seminoles and various other natives going on prolonged hunts. The root was also consumed, for the same purpose, usually when making a tea was not practical…For example, the root was consumed along the Trail of tears.
This plant is also very likely a natural antibiotic or anti-infective. These same tribal people, especially the Seminole Nation, consumed a tea of the plant to treat nausea and stomachaches. Likewise, a tea of this was used to treat urinary tract infections (Austin). These remedies would not likely have been effective unless the plant possesses some antibiotic or bacteriostatic activity.
The bruised, moistened leaves of this plant are used as a poultice to treat minor skin problems such as burns, boils, shallow surface infections of the skin, scrapes, or sores. A cold-water infusion of the pea pods is used to ease sore throats by Coahuiltec and Seminole and other tribals, just as other people might use chia, slippery elm, or sassafras file powder for a sore throat. The pods become mucilaginous after soaking.
Syrups (decoctions) with added honey were used by Shakers and other early settlers, to treat nausea (Allen, Bond, and Main).
Medicinal Recipes
*Dried or fresh roots taken straight or hidden in food.
*Poultices
*Both hot teas (decoctions) and, cold water infusions.
*Syrups made by boiling plant in water, straining the tea, and adding a sweet ingredient such as dried berries, dried persimmons, honey, sugar beet, sugarcane, dates, etc. to improve the flavor.
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Cinquefoil, Potentilla
-deciduous forest
Uses
Malaria, Blisters, Skin sores
The decoction, tea and tincture (made with water or milk) are used for diarrhea, enteritis, and inflammation of the mucous membranes in the mouth and bleeding gums, canker sores, dysentery. The tincture is good for sealing hemorrhages, for leucorrhea, and for fevers. Diluted it makes a good mouthwash and gargle for sore throat. The root is used for chronic and infectious catarrhal enteritis, quinsey, epilepsy, toothache, dysentery, and jaundice. Especially helps intestinal problems where diarrhea and constipation alternate. Externally, used to help heal wounds, sores, ulcers, bruises and relieves pain.
Culpeper claims that this herb expels any venom or poison, or the plague, other contagious diseases, as pox, measles; even cures the "French pox" he notes one writer, Andreas Valesius, to declare.
As an antispasmodic, it can relieve abdominal cramps and painful periods; but it is generally mixed with balm leaves and German chamomile flowers to make a tea for that purpose.
The tea is also useful as an external astringent for skin problems, jaundice, malaria, cystitis, palsy, shingles, itch, sciatica, gout, rheumatism, arthritis, quinsey, epilepsy, toothache, bleeding gums, mouthwash, fever, and throat sores, hoarseness, cough, ague, colds, flu, canker sores. When added to bath water, it will stop bleeding from piles, boils, ulcers, sores, and wounds.
C20H24N2O2 Quinine
C20H24N2O2 Quinine
http://www.ayurvedicnaturalhomeremedies.com/
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Prairie Blazing star; Liatris pycnostachya
-tall grass prairie
-season: summer and fall
uses
Diuretic
Used for gargle of sore throat. Remedy for gonorrhea, snakebite, wounds, insect bites.
-tall grass prairie
-season: summer and fall
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Jerusalem artichoke
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Bush honeysuckle, Diervilla lonicera
The leaves are diuretic. A compound decoction has been used in the treatment of stomach aches. This contrasts with a report that the leaves contain a narcotic principle, inducing nausea. The plant is used as a gargle in catarrhal angina. The root is diuretic, galactogogue, laxative and ophthalmic. A cooled infusion has been used as an eyewash for sore eyes. The bark is laxative and ophthalmic. An infusion has been used to increase milk flow in a nursing mother and as an eyewash for sore eyes.
http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/d/diervilla-lonicera=bush-honeysuckle.php
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Sassafras, Sassafras albidum
all areas
Uses for
Insect bites, skin problems, sprains when bark is applied directly to skin.
Safrole
C10H10O2
Despite serious safety concerns, sassafras is used for urinary tract disorders, swelling in the nose and throat, syphilis, bronchitis, high blood pressure in older people, gout,arthritis, skin problems, and cancer. It is also used as a tonic and “blood purifier.”
Some people apply sassafras directly to the skin to treat skin problems, achy joints (rheumatism), swollen eyes, sprains, and insect bites or stings. Sassafras oil is also applied to the skin to kill germs and head lice.
In beverages and candy, sassafras was used in the past to flavor root beer. It was also used as a tea. But sassafras tea contains a lot of safrole, the chemical in sassafras that makes it poisonous. One cup of tea made with 2.5 grams of sassafras contains about 200 mg of safrole. That equates to a dose of about 3 mg of safrole per 1 kg ofbody weight. This is about 4.5 times the dose that researchers think is poisonous. So, in 1976, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that sassafras could no longer be sold as sassafras tea.
http://medicinalherbinfo.org/herbs/Sassafras.html
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/14380316_Chemical_of_essential_oil_from_the_root_bark_of_Sassafras_albidum
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