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Astragalus kentrophyta var. elatus S. Wats.
Tall Spiny Milkvetch
USDA ASKEE
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Cold infusion of whole plant used as a ceremonial chant lotion.
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 32
Astragalus kentrophyta var. elatus S. Wats.
Tall Spiny Milkvetch
USDA ASKEE
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Panacea
Root used as a 'life medicine.'
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 32
Astragalus kentrophyta var. kentrophyta
Spiny Milkvetch
USDA ASKEK
Navajo Drug, Misc. Disease Remedy
Plant used for rabies.
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 56