Names
Shoshone:
English: Mountain Sorrel
Scientific: oxyria
Zone
Alpine
Harvest Time
- Before flowering
- Early summer
Primary Uses
- Lemon/citrus flavor
- High in Vitamin C and A
Secondary Uses
- To flavor bland foods
Cautions
- May trigger kidney inflammation if prone to problems w/ oxalates
- Limit intake due to oxalates
Active Principle(s)
- oxalates
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Notes
Medicinal Uses
- Abrasion: Crushed leaves on sores and injured skin
- Cancer: Leaf poultice for skin cancer
- Diarrhea: Tea
- Fever: Leaf tea
- Healing: Leaves applied to wounds
- Infection: Leaf poultice soothing to wounds
- Itching: Leaf poultice
- Rash: Plant infusion
- Skin: Mashed plants used on any skin problem
- Stings: Mashed leaf poultice
- Stomach: Leaf tea for stomach problems
- Swelling: Leaf poultice
- Ulcers: Leaf tea
- Vitamin C: Leaf tea or cooked as food
General Notes
- Treatment for scurvy
- Itch medicine