DENSMORE] 
PLANTS AS MEDICINE 
339 
How prepared 
How administered 
. 
Remarks and references 
No preparation necessary -_---_-_- 
Dried and pulverized______-_____ 
Decoction; handful of leaves and 
flowers in 114 pints water. 
Seraped and dried; equal parts 
of this and two next following 
were powdered in the hands. 
This medicine was prepared 
ceremonially. (See tonic rem- 
edy similarly prepared, Bull. 
63, p. 65.) A pail was made 
ready containing about a pint 
of water. A little of the mixed 
bark was placed on the water 
at the eastern side, the medi- 
cine man saying ““Wa’ ban- 
ong”’ (eastward); the same was 
repeated at the south, west, 
and north with similar words. 
He then placed on the top 
of these piles a smaller portion 
of the powdered Polygala Sene- 
gala root, saying the same 
words. The medicine was 
then allowed to steep. It was 
said to be very powerful so that 
care must be used not to take 
too much of it. The dose was 
measured in a small receptacle 
made of birch bark (pl. 46, h) 
and marked with a symbol of 
the remedy, or “‘oneswallow”’ 
was taken, the dose being re- 
peated in an hour. 
“Take 4 pieces of the dried root, 
about 2 inches long. Put in 1 
quart of water. Letit come to 
a boil, and boil about 2 min- 
utes.” 
Dried; a handful steeped in 114 
pints of water. 
Placed on hot stones and 
fumes inhaled. 
Combined with bear’s gall, 
pricked into the temples 
with needles. 
Administered as above__-_-_- 
| Placed on warm stone until 
| it melts; fumes inhaled. 
(1) Applied on incisions in 
the temples (see p. 332). 
(2) Moistened root inserted 
in nostrils. 
Placed on hot stones and 
fumes inhaled. 
Dose, 14 cup; repeat in half 
hour if necessary. 
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A “good drink”’ of the de- 
coction was taken as often 
as desired. 
Administered when partly 
cooled; dose, 14 cup, after 
which the patient reclined; 
dose repeated every half 
hour until patient was re- 
lieved. 
Chewedlis=: cescetns cons 
The shoots thus used were the very 
small shoots that grow beside the 
leaves. 
The manner of administering this is 
described on p. 333. 
See Hair. 
See Dysentery and hemorrhage. 
This was said to be one of the remedies 
given by Winabojo. These remedies 
are the most highly regarded. 
The root of this plant was said to grow 
to a great length, and usually to be 
found running north and south. A 
weaker decoction was used as a rem- 
edy for earache, and a very weak 
decoction was said to be good for a 
baby’s cold. 
See Diseases of women, hemorrhages, 
dysentery, tonics and remedies for 
the hair. 
