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Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu (Woods.) Woods.
Antelopehorns
USDA ASASC
Gosiute Food, Candy
Latex used as a chewing gum.
Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 363
Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu (Woods.) Woods.
Antelopehorns
USDA ASASC
Navajo, Kayenta Drug, Respiratory Aid
Plant used as a snuff for catarrh.
Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 37
Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu (Woods.) Woods.
Antelopehorns
USDA ASASC
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Plant used as ceremonial emetic.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39
Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu (Woods.) Woods.
Antelopehorns
USDA ASASC
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Emetic
Plant used as ceremonial emetic.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39
Asclepias asperula ssp. capricornu (Woods.) Woods.
Antelopehorns
USDA ASASC
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Veterinary Aid
Infusion taken and used as lotion for mad dog or mad coyote bite on man or animal.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 39