Apiaceae Heracleum maximum Bartr.

Common Cowparsnip

Kwakiutl - Drug, Gynecological Aid

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 276

View all documented uses for Heracleum maximum Bartr.

---

Scientific name: Heracleum maximum Bartr.
USDA symbol: HEMA80 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Common Cowparsnip
Family: Apiaceae
Family (APG): Apiaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Gynecological Aid
Notes: Dried, pounded roots and oil rubbed on face and waist of girl at puberty.

RECRD: 87323 id: 16847

---