Names
Shoshone:
bah·hoonh
English: Wild Tobacco or “coyote tobacco”
Scientific: Nicotania trigonophilia
Zone
Upper Foothills
Harvest Time
- When flowering
Primary Uses
- On a rack, where meat is drying
- Used on arthritic joint
Secondary Uses
- Flower/specifically, the calyx part; smoke it.
Cautions
- Leaves alkaloid content is so high that mouth + tongue burns, if leaves are smoked without being diluted with a secondary plant
Active Principle(s)
- Nicotine, anabasine, and several other toxic alkaloids
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Notes
Medicinal Uses
- Antibacterial: Standard infusion wound wash
- Anti-inflammatory: Infusion for muscle ache. Sitz bath menstrual cramps
- Arthritis: Infusion as topical analgesic
- Burns: Infusion as an analgesic
- Ears: Smudge blown in-ears to relieve congestion
- Hemorrhoids: Infusion topical
- Pain: Infusion for muscle pain and joint pain
- Skin: Poultice, analgesic for skin injuries
- Stings: Poultice for bee, wasp, scorpion stings
- Swelling: Poultice, analgesic
- Wounds: Wound dressing infusion
Process Prep
- Dry leaves for medicine
- Dry flower calyx for smoking