DENSMOItE] 



PLANTS AS MEDICINE 



339 



How prepared 



How administered 



Remarks and references 



Fresh 



Burned and charcoal used 



....do 



No preparation necessary. 

 Dried and pulverized 



Dried... 



Decoction; handful of leaves and 



flowers in lj 2 pints water. 

 fScraped 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' bun- 

 ong" (eastward); thesame 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 (pi. 46, h) 

 and marked with a symbol of 

 the remedy, or "one swallow" 

 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. Let it come to 

 a boil, and boil about 2 min- 

 utes." 



Dried; a handful steeped in l, 1 2 

 pints of water. 



Fresh. 



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, \-i cup; repeat in half 



hour if necessary. 

 Internally 



A "good drink" of the de- 

 coction was taken as often 

 as desired. 



Administered when partly 

 cooled; dose, 1 2 cup, after 

 which the patient reclined; 

 dose repeated every half 

 hour until patient was re- 

 lieved. 



Chewed _ 



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. 



