Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Shooting Star

Scientific: Dodecathion sp

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Not Specified

Primary Uses

• Salad green or boil
  • sweet tasting

Secondary Uses

• None listed

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

General Notes

• Salad green or boil; is sweet

Process Prep

• Pot herb

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Bee Balm

Scientific: Monarda fistulosa

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Time not Specified
  • Only one species of Monarda, here in Wind River environs, versus 2 used medicinally in Eastern Wyoming

Primary Uses

• Place wet leaves onto eyes to heal eye problems;
  • detached retina; cataracts –
• Used for healing skin
• Taken internally for upset stomach

Secondary Uses

• Keep flies off meat or fish

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• Thymol (antiseptic)

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Abrasion: Leaves as a wound dressing
• Allergy: Steam inhaled as a bronchodilator
• Antibacterial: Leaf tea
• Anti-inflammatory: Tea for fever, rubbed on rashes and sore eyes
• Antiviral: tea for coughs, colds, flu
• Anxiety: Tea is a treatment for insomnia and anxiety
• Arthritis: Leaves rubbed on arthritic joints
• Burns: Anti-inflammatory dressing for burns
• Chest: Leaf and flower tea rubbed on upper body to reduce fever
• Congestion: Flower and leaf tea
• Cough: Leaf and flower tea
• Eyes: Leaves as compress for sore eyes on any eye problem
• Fever: Leaves and flowers in water internally and topically
• Glomerulitis: Kidney tonic
• Headache: Tea internally and rubbed on head
• Healing: Wound dressing
• Heart: Tea is considered heart healthy
• Infection: Flowers and leaves in tea, topically or internally
• Intestinal Health: Tea expels intestinal worms and parasites
• Kidney Nephritis: Kidney tonic
• Kidney Stones: Kidney tonic
• Lungs: Tea is bronchodilator steam inhaled
• Pain: Leaves and flowers rubbed on achy joints and toothaches
• Pneumonia: Steamed leaves and flowers. Tea to reduce fever
• Rash: Leaf infusion
• Sleep: Leaf tea for insomnia
• Stomach: Tea for upset stomach
• Swelling: Wound dressing
• Spiritual Health: Tea used at Sundance
• Teeth: Leaves compress for toothache
• Throat: Tea for sore throat, colds, coughs
• Urinary Tract Infection: Tea
• Vitamin C: Spice
• Wounds: Dressing

Process Prep

• Dried leaves and flowers as tea, pot herb, spice, or to keep flies off drying meat

Names

Shoshone:
hah·reen·ayn·gah

English: Yarrow “chipmunk tail”

Scientific: Achillea millifolium lanulosa

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Not Specified

Primary Uses

• Kills pathogenic bacteria
• Slows blood flow, injuries. Adjusts blood to high altitude an “Arch-blood alternative” medicine

Secondary Uses

• Yarrow tea – 1 cup from just 3-4 tiny flower heads

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Antibacterial: Tea of whole plant or topical
• Anti-inflammatory: Leaf or flower tea
• Antiviral: Tea stimulates immune response
• Bleeding: Flowers and leaves are styptic
• Burns: Upper parts of plant used as a wash
• Cough: Flower tea
• Diarrhea: Tea
• Healing: Disinfectant, anti-inflammatory, pain killer
• Infection: Flower or leaves for topical or internal (ulcers)
• Itching: Flower infusion as was
• Laxative: Flower tea
• Menstruation: Reduces blood flow
• Pain: Flower tea analgesic
• Rash: Flowers and leaves applied to reduce pain

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Foothills Bluebells

Scientific: Mertensia oblongifolia

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Not Specified

Primary Uses

• Leaves work as pre-biotic in gut lining: Leave contain gooey mucilage which speeds up healing process

Secondary Uses

• Great salad green, “green bean flavor”

Cautions

• Cautions

Active Principle(s)

• Active principles

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Notes

Process Preparation

• Mash up the leaves till gooey: apply to wound; possibly make pine pitch bandages around this healing leaves sites.

Medicinal Use

• Abrasion: Leaf poultice to speed healing
• Anti-inflammatory: Topical leaf or, leaf tea
• Burns: Soothing leaf poultice. Speeds up healing
• Healing: Topical leaf poultice speeds healing
• Pain: Mashed leaves soothing to wounds
• Rash: Mashed leaves soothes rash

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