Fabaceae Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh

American Licorice

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Cathartic

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 32

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Scientific name: Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh
USDA symbol: GLLE3 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: American Licorice
Family: Fabaceae
Family (APG): Fabaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Cathartic
Notes: Decoction of root used as a cathartic.

RECRD: 86801 id: 16066

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