Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Limber Pine

Scientific: Scientific name

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Time not specified
  • South of Red Desert, Bighorn Mountains; “Laramie” Range

Primary Uses

• None listed

Secondary Uses

• None listed

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Congestion: Pitch swallowed
• Fever: Teta of needles to reduce fever
• Glomerulitis: Needle tea
• Healing: Needle tea for infections internal and external together
• Infection: Tea made of inner bark topical or internal
• Kidney Nephritis: needle tea
• Lungs: Pitch swallowed as an expectorant
• Pain: Needle tea for muscle pain/soreness
• Pneumonia: Needle tea to bring up phlegm
• Rash: Needle tea to prevent infection
• Skin: Sap plus fat to remove foreign materials from under skin
• Urinary Tract Infection: Needle tea

Names

Shoshone:
ay.fee.toe.n.zee.yap

English: Rocky Mountain Bee Plant

Scientific: Cleome serrulata

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• All summer
  • Sand Dunes, Red Desert, at edges

Primary Uses

• Root emergency food during drought, used to make tea to strengthen throat for singing
• Tea used to keep throat healthy for singers at Sundance

Secondary Uses

• Emergency food during extreme drought

Cautions

• Very bitter

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Anti-inflammatory: Tea for inflamed throat

Process Prep

• Cooked as emergency food

Names

Shoshone:
day.ah.koo

English: Wild Begonia

Scientific: Rumex venosus

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• In the sand dunes, time not specified

Primary Uses

• Teas used to draw out toxins during fasts

Secondary Uses

• Use as tea
  • Dry roots for tea

Cautions

• Not Listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Abrasion: Fresh root applied to skin
• Constipation: Root tea
• Throat: Seed pods smoked with wild tobacco to alleviate sore throat

Process Prep

• Dried seeds pods smoked with tobacco
• Dry roots for medicinal tea for skin problems

Names

Shoshone:
doy.yah.zoe.nahh

English: Wyoming Paintbrush

Scientific: Castilleja linarifolia

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• Not Specified

Primary Uses

• Poultice can suppress skin cancer tumor growth
• Potherb

Secondary Uses

• Trail food raw

Cautions

• Do not eat if nearby species are poisonous

Active Principle(s)

• Carotenoids, Vitamin C, Selenium

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Notes

Process Prep:

• Food raw or cooked
• Medicine crushed above-ground parts

General Notes:

• There are more than 60 species in Wyoming

Medicinal Uses:

• Abrasion: Fresh plant poulticed on skin
• Antibacterial: Mashed plant applied to wounds
• Anti-inflammatory: Mashed plant (fresh) on wound
• Cancer: Chewed bracts and leaves for skin cancer
• Immune: Poultice stimulates local immunity

Names

Shoshone:
doo.see.geep

English: Globe Mallow

Scientific: Sphaeralcea coccinia

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• June or July

Primary Uses

• Use after fasting to stimulate digestion
• Mix with other bitter medicines for a sweeter taste “adjuvant”

Secondary Uses

• Use as tea

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• Glucopolysaccharides for pre-biotic gut environment

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Abrasion: Chewed roots poulticed
• Antibacterial: crushed roots
• Anti-inflammatory: Mashed leaf tea for inflamed intestine
• Appetite Suppression: Leaves and flowers make a sweet tea
• Bleeding: Chewed rots put on bleeding wounds
• Burns: Chewed roots applied to burned skin
• Chest: Whole plant tea to clear chest congestion
• Cough: Root tea
• Detox: Upper plant tea to clean out intestines “prebiotic”
• Glomerulitis: Leaf tea to clean urinary tract
• Healing: Soothing antimicrobial poultice
• Hemorrhoids: Chewed leaves and flowers with tobacco and saliva
• Intestinal Health: Leaf tea
• Kidney Nephritis: Whole plant tea
• Liver: Used with echinacea for liver health
• Lungs: Whole plant tea to improve breathing
• Skin: Acne treatment with echinacea and yellow dock
• Stomach: Tea for upset stomach
• Swelling: Poultice of whole plant
• Spiritual Healing: Tea to treat diseases caused by bad spirits “witchcraft”
• Throat: Tea as sore throat medicine
• Ulcers: Tea
• Urinary tract infection: Tea
• Wounds: Wound dressing

Process Prep

• Crushed plant as tea or poultice
• Use as tea

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Rockrose Evening Primrose

Scientific: Oenothera caespitosum

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• Early Spring

Primary Uses

• Roots used for skin injury disinfectant and sopository for hemorrhoids. Seeds used as a anti-depressant
• Peel root, apply to wound

Secondary Uses

• Root as a soothing dressing
• Flower-perfume

Cautions

• Immune response

Active Principle(s)

• Quercetin- Fox Oenothin- as disinfectant agent

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Allergy: Mashed roots applied to skin
• Anti-inflammatory: Mashed roots
• Anxiety: Crushed seeds in food
• Bleeding: Mashed root poultice
• Burns: Mashed root poultice
• Mental Health: Mashed seeds eaten for depression
• Osteoporosis: Seeds eaten with food
• Skin: Seeds eaten for dry or flakey skin

Process Prep

• Seeds are crushed and can be steeped in oil for depression or skin conditions. Wound care – peel root and apply to wound

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Bulbous Spring Parsley

Scientific: Cymopterus bulbosa

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• Dig in early June
  • Must peel root skin promptly

Primary Uses

• There are many types, mainly biscuit root, making up carbohydrate foods. Tops are also edible (15-18 in Wind River + Red Desert)
• Roots for bread flour
• tops eaten raw or dried and cooked in stews or soups, good flavor!

Secondary Uses

• Seeds as spice in soups/stews

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Intestinal Health: Cooked seeds as a digestive aid
• Old People’s Medicine: Cooked seeds to aid digestion
• Vitamin C: Leaves and flowers, raw or cooked

Process Prep

• Grind roots in flour for bread, gotsup, biscuits, hard tack
• Peel skin off roots promptly after harvest