(Wild Chives)

Names

Shoshone:

English: Wild Chives

Scientific: Allium sibiricum

Zone

Montane

Harvest Time

• 1. Food: spring and summer
• 2. Medicine
  • June: low elevation
  • July: Montane zone

Primary Uses

• Flavor in cooking
  • Top:
    • Meats, stews
  • Buds:
    • The sweetest onion flavor

Secondary Uses

• Crushed plants applied to rattlesnake bites and other venoms

Cautions

• Not necessary to dig up roots, since whole plant has the onion flavor

Active Principle(s)

• None Listed

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Notes

Food Uses

• Antibacterial-eaten to combat bacterial food poisoning
• Cough plants boiled down to thick syrup
• Intestinal Health-Cold infusion of plant for intestinal worms and parasites
• Old people’s medicine-to stimulate appetite
• Pain-24 hour cold infusion applied to venomous stings and bites
• Stings-mashed plants applied to stings and bites such as rattlesnake
• Throat-mashed plants with sweetener for sore throat
• Medicine for coughs and sores

Process Prep

• Food: raw or boiled
• Medicine: plant soaked 24 hours