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 |