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.
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