Auto-SummaryThe post discusses various botanical uses, including fish poisons, insect repellents, coffee and tea substitutes, dyes, fibers and wood, smoking substitutes, insufflation, sublingual administration, and subcutaneous administration. The author mentions several specific plants and their uses, such as Mullien (Verbascum thapsis) for fish poisoning, Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) for toothache, and Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens) for fish poisoning and insect repellent. Other topics include botanical sources of dye, fibers, wood, smoking substitutes, insufflation, sublingual administration, and subcutaneous administration.
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Here is a very rough draft of my essay im working on...
Botanicals Utilized As Fish Poisons (Stunning Fish)
-Mullien (Verbascum thapsis):
-Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia): Powdered bark used for toothache. Seeds and young foliage are poisonous. The powdered seeds have ben used in ponds and slow moving water to catch fish, which become groggy and float to the surface.
-Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens): The roots and stems contain rotenon, which is used as an fish poison,
Insect Repelling Herbs
-Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum): Used in sachets for the linen cupboard to repel insects.
-Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia): Dried flowers used to deter insects
-Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens): The roots and stems contain rotenon, which is used as an insecticide
Botanicals Used as Coffee and Tea Substitutes
-Goosegrass (Galium aparine): Seeds used as coffee substiute
-Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale): Roots roasted to make coffee substitute.
-Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus dioica): The pulp from the pod was used by Native Americans to treat "Lunacy". The Meskwaki and other tribes made coffee from roasted. The wood has been used for posts, furniture , fuel, and construction. Small Clones can occur from root sprouts.
-New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus): The root imparts a red color to water. Native Americans used the leaves to make tea. The colonists use it as a patriotic substitue for black tea after the boston tea party.
-Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens): Leaves used to make a pleasant tasting yellow brown tea.
Botanicals that yield dye
-False Indigo (Amorpha fruticosa): Some species yield a poor indigo dye.
-Devil's Walking Stick (Aralia spinosa): The black fleshy fruits at one time were used for dyeing hair black.
-RedRoot (Ceanothus herbaceus): The roots are a deep red color and can be used to make dye.
-Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida): Native Americans prepared a scarlet dye from the roots to color their color their quills and feathers.
Botanical sources of Fibers and Wood
-Devil's Walking Stick (Aralia spinosa): Wood once used for small articles such in crafts. The black fleshy fruits at one time were used for dyeing hair black.
-Rough-leaved dogwood (Cornus drummondii): Chew sticks are made by cutting off a small stem several inches long, removing the outer bark, and chewing on the top to soften the fibers, which can then be used to massage the gums.
-Stiff dogwood (Cormus foemina): This hard, tuff, splinter free wood was used in making skewers to hold meat together while cooking.
Botanicals Administered via Smoking (Tobacco Substitutes and Additives)
-Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra): Native Americans Smoke the Rolled leaves as a treatment for asthma.
A white sticky sap excudes from broken stems. The leaves are reported to have been mixed with tobacco and smoked. The twigs, leaves, and roots were used for staining and dyeing.
-Wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus): Native Americans used the powdered bark for tobacco and the wood from the straight stems of the plant for arrows. Relatively fast growing, short lived shrub to small tree, often sprouting from the roots.
-Mullien (Verbascum thapsis):
Botanicals Administered via Insufflation (Snuffs)
-Magnolia Tree (Magnolia officinalis): Jon Ott reports that leaves of the Magnolia tree are snuffed as a sort of "Mild Dope"
Botanicals Administered Sublingualy (Quids)
Botanicals Administered SubCutaneously (Open Wound and Burns)
-Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens):The Omaha Indians powdered the dried leaves and blew them into cuts and open wounds to help promote scab formation.
I know that there are several obvious plants missing from those subjects but I have so many various essays im working on that I haven't payed too much attention to this one.. Ive also been busy trying to peddle my bulk seeds, which takes up a lot of my time.
Oh yes,, In another post we came to the conclusion that the smooth pod variety of Datura stramonium is considered to be D. stramonium var. inermis but I cannot find reference to this at all. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to prove to me that it is infact inermis variety. Thanks.
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