Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Watercress

Scientific: Nasturtium officinale

Zone

Desert

Harvest Time

• Any time: grows in warm springs

Primary Uses

• Food: leaves in soups and stews

Secondary Uses

• None listed

Cautions

• Boil before eating to avoid giardia campylobacter

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

General Notes:

• Vitamin C in leaves and stems
• Pot herb brought west by settlers

Process Prep:

• Dried or fresh leaves in soups and stews

Names

Shoshone:
oh·hah·yap

English: Stonecrop

Scientific: Sedum lanceolatum

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• June, July
• Leaves and flowers eaten as trail food

Primary Uses

• None listed

Secondary Uses

• Traveling food

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• Ascorbic acid

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Notes

General Uses:

• Food: leaves/flowers
• Vitamin C in food as flowers and leaves and stems

Process Prep

• Trail foo

Names

Shoshone:
day·ah·koo

English: Curly Dock “known as Yellow-Dock”

Scientific: Rumex crispus

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Spring
  • roots foot long, peel down to yellow core
• Late summer for seed pods dry
• Early summer for medicinal roots

Primary Uses

• Ground-up roots can be purchased
• Seed pods = indian tobacco
• Roots: for bleeding wounds for abrasions

Secondary Uses

• Young leaves: food

Cautions

• Some problems can get worse initially after the Rx, then clear up (skin rash). Dilute seeds with other tobacco before use when smoking.

Active Principle(s)

• Chrysophanic acid

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Notes

• Peeling outer bark from foot-long taproot, shows yellow root. Dice up and dry this out then put in sun-tea
• Dry seed pods for tobacco additive: Indian tobacco
• 3 to 4 Tsp in 1 gallon water

Medicinal Uses

• Abrasion: Split fresh roots topically or cold tea
• Allergy: Root cold infusion drunk daily in spring
• Bleeding: Tea for bleeding ulcers
• Burns: Fresh root applied to burns
• Constipation: Root tea 3x/day
• Detox: Root tea for liver detox to clean blood
• Healing: Root tea as general detox
• Hemorrhoids: Root tea internal 3x/day
• Kidney Stones: Root tea for stones
• Liver: Root tea to de-fat fatty liver
• Nervous system: Root tea used to treat nervousness
• Rash: Root tea to treat allergic rashes due to fatty liver
• Skin: Root tea for acne and skin allergy reactions

Names

Shoshone: see·goe

English: Sego Lilly

Scientific: Calochortus nutallii

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• June
  • sandy soils, sometimes clay; use digging sticks
• Digging stick to harvest at traditional collecting sites… when in flower

Primary Uses

• 100% digestible carbohydrate; add to stew pots.
• Staple food
• Bulb

Secondary Uses

• Pre-biotic to improve digestion and immunity

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• Starch and inulin

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Immune: Contains inulin as immune support
• Intestinal Health: Food: roots contain inulin

Process Prep

• Roots: dried and boiled

Names

Shoshone:
yahm·b or Yump or Yumbay (Top-of-the-list-food, for man and beast)

English: Yampah

Scientific: Perideridia gairdneri

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Early summer in flower dug in loose soil
• Late summer
  • Antelope flats in Jackson Hole, between sagebrush

Primary Uses

• 100% digestible carbohydrate. Tasty and staple food.

Secondary Uses

• Used to make bread

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• Starch and inulin

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Immune: Contains Inulin as immune support
• Intestinal Health: food roots contain inulin

Process Prep:

• Roots dried for flour or eaten raw

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Sticky Geranium

Scientific: Geranium viscosum

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Any time of growing season

Primary Uses

• Pot-herb, leaves, stems, flowers. Fresh: prior to flowering; used as a salad green
• Dried roots, pounded into powder could be used to stop bleeding. Also, could be eaten for bleeding ulcers; diarrhea

Secondary Uses

• Tea for bleeding gums, and mouth sores

Cautions

• Root tea can cause constipation

Active Principle(s)

• Leaves: High in vitamin C and B
• Roots: Astrigents

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Abrasion: Fresh root applied to abrasions as astringent
• Bleeding: Dried root applied to a bleeding wound
• Diarrhea: Dried root tea
• Hemorrhoids: Root tea topical with evening primrose root
• Rash: Root infusion to soothe and shrink sores
• Teeth: Tea of roots and leaves for loose teeth
• Throat: Root tea for sore throat
• Ulcers: Root tea
• Vitamin C: Leaves are food

Process Prep

• Use fresh on wounds or chew for diarrhea
• Dry roots and pound into powder for storage
• 1 tsp in cup of water 3x/day for diarrhea

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Fireweed

Scientific: Epilobium angustifolium

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Summer
  • June, July, August
• Root any time
• Leaves and flowers any time, but especially when flowering

Primary Uses

• Cooked as food like spinach tea for general health infusion for skin infection

Secondary Uses

• Teas, food
• Delicious tea when leaves are fermented

Cautions

• None Listed

Active Principle(s)

• Quercitin, Oenothic Acid

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Notes

• Food
  • Leaves and stems are used in stews, and leaves make very nutritious teas. Before flowering stems can be used as soup thickeners
• Leaves
  • Fungal infections
    • drink as tea for internal yeast infections or use topically for toenail or diabetes fungal infections.
    • Roots: Treats skin injuries, skin cancers. Can be used as suppository for hemorrhoids.
• Allergy: Leaf tea
• Antibacterial: topical poultice and internal tea
• Anti-inflammatory: Tea
• Arthritis: Leaf tea, anti-inflammatory
• Blood Pressure: Tea increases B.P
• Burns: Poultice
• Constipation: Leaf tea
• Cough: Leaf tea as throat medicine
• Fungicide: Leaf or root tea
• Healing: Poultice or tea for many symptoms
• Hemorrhoids: Root suppository combined with leaf tea
• Immune: Tea as an immune stimulant
• INfection: Leaf infusion as a wash
• Itching: leaf of root infusion poultice
• Intestinal Health: Tea
• Kidney Nephritis: Tea
• Laxative: Tea
• Pain: Leaf tea for stomach/belly pain
• Skin: Topical infusion is good for skin integrity. Internal tea source of Quercitin and nutrients for skin
• Stings: Topical and tea at some time. Reduces histamine production
• Urinary tract infection: tea is antifungal

• Roots
  • treats skin injuries, skin cancers. Can be used as a suppository for hemorrhoids

General Notes:

• anti-allergy medicine tea for runny nose, eyes, to tract fungal infections of all kinds. Hemorrhoids (use root)

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

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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

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Rayless Coneflower

Scientific: Rudbeckiaoccidentalis

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• When in flower
  • Yellowstone, inside Yellowstone park, Teton park, mountain hillsides

Primary Uses

• Arthritic joints: rub fresh, mashed leaves/stem boil, then keep it in the water until the next day, rub water on painful joints

Secondary Uses

• None listed

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Swelling: Infusion rubbed on swollen joints – to reduce arthritic pain and inflammation
• Arthritis: Topical anti-inflammatory

Process Prep

• Fresh poultice

Names

Shoshone:
doo·pooi·toe·n·zee·yap

English: Larkspur

Scientific: Delphinum sp.

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Above ground plant when in flower

Primary Uses

• De lousing: gather, dry: make into powder. Kills and repels lice. Use soapy lather of Buckbrush, to hold it in hair finally, rinse

Secondary Uses

• Very poisonous alkaloids

Cautions

• Poisonous to livestock and people

Active Principle(s)

• Delphinin

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Lice: Powdered plant or water infusion

Process Prep

• Dry