Plant Uses

Question 1

Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Answer 1

All parts but especially flowers and leaves
Cheyenne:
Tea for colds, slight nausea, induce sweating, break fever, respiratory diseases, chest pains
Chewed and rubbed on body for unspecified afflictions
Blackfeet:
Tea as a diuretic
Some parts for toothache
Flowers for perfume
Lakota:
Chewed dried plant and placed on wounds
Tea for coughing, whooping cough, fainting
Crows:
Tea held in mouth for toothache and sore gums
Crushed plant for burns
Poultice for boils and sores

Question 2

Calamus

Acorus calamus

Answer 2

Rhizomes, leaves, entire plant

Carmative
Decoction for fever
Root stock chewed as a cough remedy and toothache, colds
Infusion of pounded root stock for colic

Question 3

Wild onion

Allium canadense

Answer 3

Bulbs and leaves
Food

Tea of bulbs to control coughs and vomiting
Infusion of bulbs for eyewash and ear infections
Combined with beebalm for a swellings and sores
Smoke from a smudge of the bulb for colds, headache, sinus troubles
Bruised wild onion for stings

Question 4

Pasque flower

Anemone patens

Answer 4

All parts

Crushed leaves as a counterirritant for rheumatism, neuralgia and similar ailments

Question 5

White sage
(Artemisia ludoviciana)

Answer 5

Leaves, stems

Tea for stomach troubles

Question 6

Butterfly milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa

Answer 6

Root

Eat raw root for bronchial and pulmonary troubles