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