Lamiaceae Mentha arvensis L.

Canadian Mint

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: Mentha arvensis L.
USDA symbol: MEAR4 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Canadian Mint
Family: Lamiaceae
Family (APG): Lamiaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Febrifuge
Notes: Cold infusion taken and used as lotion for fever.

RECRD: 89577 id: 22698