Solanaceae Datura wrightii Regel

Sacred Thornapple

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Analgesic

Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 42

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Scientific name: Datura wrightii Regel
USDA symbol: DAWR2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Sacred Thornapple
Family: Solanaceae
Family (APG): Solanaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Analgesic
Notes: Cold infusion of root taken and used as a lotion for injury pain, a narcotic.

RECRD: 84965 id: 12208

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