NAEB Text Search


Note: This Boolean text search is experimental and only Boolean operators "AND" and "OR" are supported. Additionally, only the first Boolean operator in the query is used - any additional operators are treated as part of the text query.

160 uses matching query. Search results limited to 1,000 records.
Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.
Velvetleaf Huckleberry
USDA VAMY
Cree, Woodlands Drug, Abortifacient
Decoction of leafy stems used to bring menstruation.
Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 63
Vaccinium myrtilloides Michx.
Velvetleaf Huckleberry
USDA VAMY
Cree, Woodlands Drug, Abortifacient
Decoction of plant used to bring menstruation.
Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 63
Veratrum viride Ait.
American False Hellebore
USDA VEVI
Kwakiutl Drug, Abortifacient
Juice taken by women to bring about an abortion.
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 273
Verbena hastata L.
Swamp Verbena
USDA VEHAH
Cherokee Drug, Abortifacient
Used for female obstructions.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 60
Verbesina virginica L.
White Crownbeard
USDA VEVIV
Chickasaw Drug, Abortifacient
Plant used as a 'deobstruant.'
Campbell, T.N., 1951, Medicinal Plants Used by Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 41(9):285-290, page 289
Viburnum lentago L.
Nannyberry
USDA VILE
Malecite Drug, Abortifacient
Infusion of roots used for irregular menstruation.
Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 258
Viburnum lentago L.
Nannyberry
USDA VILE
Micmac Drug, Abortifacient
Roots used for irregular menstruation.
Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 63
Vicia sativa ssp. nigra (L.) Ehrh.
Common Vetch
USDA VISAN2
Iroquois Drug, Abortifacient
Decoction of plant taken by women with suppressed menses.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 365
Yucca glauca Nutt.
Small Soapweed
USDA YUGLG2
Lakota Drug, Abortifacient
Roots and prickly pear cactus roots used as 'medicine for not give birth.'
Rogers, Dilwyn J, 1980, Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule) People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota, St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Scoiety, page 28
Zanthoxylum americanum P. Mill.
Common Pricklyash
USDA ZAAM
Iroquois Drug, Abortifacient
Decoction of bark taken to promote miscarriage.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 368