Lamiaceae Dracocephalum parviflorum Nutt.

American Dragonhead

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Febrifuge

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 41

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Scientific name: Dracocephalum parviflorum Nutt.
USDA symbol: DRPA2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: American Dragonhead
Family: Lamiaceae
Family (APG): Lamiaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Febrifuge
Notes: Cold, compound infusion of leaves taken for fever.

RECRD: 85180 id: 12674

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