Names
Shoshone:
Unknown
English: Buckbrush “Elk-weed or soap-brush or redroot”
Scientific: Ceanothus velutinus
Zone
Upper Foothills
Harvest Time
- Early Summer
- for soap use when the leaves are still shiny
Primary Uses
- Tincture from red parts of the roots: 30-50 drops, 2x per day relieves head congestion and bronchial
Secondary Uses
- None Listed
Cautions
- Difficult to dig out the root
Active Principle(s)
- None listed
Video Description of Plant
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Notes
- Isolate the red parts, once bark is shaved off with hatchet
Medicinal Uses:
- Anxiety: Leaf tea
- Bleeding: Root tea for capillary hemorrhage and hemorrhoids
- Chest: Root tea to reduce lymph swelling
- Congestion: Root tea
- Ears: Root tea for ear congestion or infection
- Headache: root tea
- Healing: Flower infusion to wash wounds
- Hyperactivity: Leaf tea for calming
- Lymph: Root tea reduces lymph swelling
- Nervous Systems: Leaf tea relaxant