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Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Algonquin, Quebec Drug, Unspecified
Infusion of roots and cedar bark used as a medicinal tea.
Black, Meredith Jean, 1980, Algonquin Ethnobotany: An Interpretation of Aboriginal Adaptation in South Western Quebec, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series Number 65, page 230
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Cherokee Drug, Anthelmintic
Infusion of blooms taken for worms.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Cherokee Drug, Dermatological Aid
Used for sores or skin eruptions.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Cherokee Drug, Dietary Aid
Taken to increase appetite.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Cherokee Drug, Febrifuge
Infusion of blooms taken for fevers.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Cherokee Drug, Laxative
Infusion of blooms taken as a laxative.
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 59
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Cherokee Food, Unspecified
Young shoots and leaves boiled, fried and eaten.
Witthoft, John, 1977, Cherokee Indian Use of Potherbs, Journal of Cherokee Studies 2(2):250-255, page 253
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Iroquois Drug, Liver Aid
Compound decoction of roots taken for too much gall.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 434
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Iroquois Drug, Witchcraft Medicine
Infusion of smashed roots taken as an anti-witchcraft medicine.
Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 434
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Malecite Drug, Contraceptive
Infusion of plants used to prevent pregnancy.
Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 258
Chelone glabra L.
White Turtlehead
USDA CHGL2
Micmac Drug, Contraceptive
Herb used to prevent pregnancy.
Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 55
Chelone sp.
Deer Tongue
Cherokee Food, Vegetable
Leaves and stems parboiled, rinsed and cooked in grease until tender.
Perry, Myra Jean, 1975, Food Use of 'Wild' Plants by Cherokee Indians, The University of Tennessee, M.S. Thesis, page 55
Nothochelone nemorosa (Dougl. ex Lindl.) Straw
Woodland Beardtongue
USDA NONE3
Paiute Drug, Dermatological Aid
Green, mashed plant juice applied to sores 'like iodine.'
Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 109