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In a message dated 6/6/2000 1:22:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Allen,
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys 1972 Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related
Algonkian Indians. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission
Anthropological Papers #3 (33)
poke root, mullein leaves, wild cherry and black cohosh barks for
rheumatism.
great mullein, plum root and glycerine and used as a syrup for lung trouble
great mullein, plum root and glycerine and used as a syrup for catarrh.
I got this information from Moerman's American Indian Ethnobotany database
on the Net. A very comprehensive and inclusive resource.
John Dendy
Archeologist
Dynamac Corporation
Fort Riley, KS
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Allen--a point I meant to make but omitted, is that mullein is a species
introduced by European settlers. Another name for it is "Englishman's Foot"
which I believe is of Indian derivation. It is so called because it is a
commensal species found on old house sites and fields. Again, not much help
on the patent medicines, but didn't someone advertise an annotated
bibliography of these a while back? Smoke Pfeiffer maybe? Should be on the
histarch archives.
Carl Steen
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