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