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Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Thompson Drug, Cathartic
Strong decoction of bark or wood used as a physic.
Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 473
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Thompson Drug, Cathartic
Strong or mild decoction of bark and sometimes wood used as a physic.
Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 253
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Thompson Drug, Gastrointestinal Aid
Decoction of two bark strips and flowering dogwood bark taken for ulcers.
Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 253
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Thompson Drug, Laxative
Mild decoction of bark or wood used as a laxative.
Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 473
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Thompson Drug, Liver Aid
Infusion of bark and red elderberry roots taken for liver diseases.
Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 253
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Tolowa Drug, Laxative
Bark used as a laxative.
Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 50
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
West Coast Indian Drug, Cathartic
Infusion of root bark or bark taken as a cathartic.
Reagan, Albert, 1934, Various Uses of Plants by West Coast Indians, Washington Historical Quarterly 25:133-37, page 133
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
West Coast Indian Drug, Panacea
Infusion of root bark or bark taken for most any sort of disease.
Reagan, Albert, 1934, Various Uses of Plants by West Coast Indians, Washington Historical Quarterly 25:133-37, page 133
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
West Coast Indian Drug, Poison
Infusion of root bark or bark taken in large doses caused death.
Reagan, Albert, 1934, Various Uses of Plants by West Coast Indians, Washington Historical Quarterly 25:133-37, page 133
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
West Coast Indian Drug, Venereal Aid
Infusion of root bark or bark taken for gonorrhea.
Reagan, Albert, 1934, Various Uses of Plants by West Coast Indians, Washington Historical Quarterly 25:133-37, page 133
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Yurok Drug, Laxative
Decoction of bark or bark chewed as a laxative.
Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 50
Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper
Pursh's Buckthorn
USDA FRPU7
Yurok, South Coast (Nererner) Drug, Cathartic
Decoction of bark used as a cathartic medicine.
Merriam, C. Hart, 1966, Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, University of California Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, page 169