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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 quality. 



