DENSMORE] 
PLANTS AS MEDICINE 
351 
How prepared 
How administered 
Remarks and references 
Boil root and use as a drawing 
poultice. 
Dried root and flowers were 
pounded together and made 
into a poultice without boiling. 
Pounded in a cloth and applied 
as a poultice. 
The fresh root was mashed and 
applied as a poultice. 
Decoction Saees-aseseeen es 
Steeped 
Decoction made from one root to 
1 quart of water. 
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Steeped. “Bathe child with the 
tea and then rub it with tallow, 
venison tallow if possible.” 
Dried and powdered root is 
moistened, spread on a cloth 
and applied as a poultice in 
cases of great itching of the 
skin and eruptions. 
Decoction made from 1 root and 
1 quart of water; 3 or 4 roots 
may be used. 
“Gather the white liquid which 
oozes out when the stalk is 
broken and rub this on the 
wart.” 
Combined with bear’s grease as 
an ointment. 
“Spit on the cut and draw the 
edges together, then chew this 
bark and apply thickly like a 
poultice as soon as possible. 
Dried root may be used in the 
same manner.”” 
Moisten the dried and pulver- 
ized root. 
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It was said that dried root could be 
used without cooking. See Sore 
throat. 
This poultice was said to be healing as 
well as ‘‘drawing.’’ See Cough and 
fracture. 
Used internally as a remedy for the 
blood. 
The root of this plant was used for stop- 
page of urine. 
Used especially for children. 
3 or 4 roots may be used. 
See stimulants, headache and diseases 
of the horse. 
Used especially for children. See 
Worms, and burns. 
Used especially for children. See Cuts. 
This remedy is used only from the fresh 
plant. 
See Lung trouble, sprain and diseases 
of women. 
See Headache. 
Concerning the first plant, see Heart 
stimulant, dysentery, hemorrhages 
from wounds, tonics and diseases of 
women. The second plant was also 
used as a physic. 
See Diseases of women. 
See Dysentery and headache. 
This was used for a ‘‘clean cut.’”’ See 
Eruptions and ulcers. 
