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Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
Missouri Gourd
USDA CUFO
Shoshoni Drug, Veterinary Aid
Infusion of plant given to horses for bloat or worms.
Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 48
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
Missouri Gourd
USDA CUFO
Tewa Drug, Laxative
Infusion of pulverized root taken as a laxative.
Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 63
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
Missouri Gourd
USDA CUFO
Winnebago Drug, Panacea
Root used for any ailment, according to the doctrine of signatures.
Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 116117
Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth
Missouri Gourd
USDA CUFO
Zuni Drug, Antirheumatic (External)
Poultice of powdered seeds, flowers and saliva applied to swellings.
Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye, 1980, A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388, page 375