Caryophyllaceae Silene menziesii Hook.

Menzies' Campion

Okanagan-Colville - Drug, Eye Medicine

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 95

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Scientific name: Silene menziesii Hook.
USDA symbol: SIMED (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Menzies' Campion
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Family (APG): Caryophyllaceae
Native American Tribe: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Eye Medicine
Notes: Infusion of pounded roots used as eye drops for cataracts.

RECRD: 12579 id: 37989

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