| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Cowlitz Drug, Tonic Infusion of plants taken as a tonic. Gunther, Erna, 1973, Ethnobotany of Western Washington, Seattle. University of Washington Press. Revised edition, page 26 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Okanagan-Colville Drug, Dermatological Aid Poultice of softened leaves applied to cuts and sores. Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 52 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Okanagan-Colville Drug, Reproductive Aid Leaves split open and blown on several times by women wishing to become pregnant. Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 52 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Okanagon Drug, Gynecological Aid Plant chewed by women before and at the time of childbirth. Perry, F., 1952, Ethno-Botany of the Indians in the Interior of British Columbia, Museum and Art Notes 2(2):36-43., page 41 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Saanich Drug, Antirheumatic (External) Infusion of leaves used in the bathwater of sprinters and canoers as a liniment for stiff muscles. Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 77 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Thompson Drug, Gynecological Aid Leaves chewed prenatally to determine the sex of a baby and to insure an easy delivery. If the mother could swallow the chewed leaf, the baby was going to be a girl, but if she could not, then it was going to be a boy. 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 136 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Thompson Drug, Gynecological Aid Plant chewed at childbirth to ease confinement. Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 462 |
| Goodyera oblongifolia Raf. Western Rattlesnake Plantain USDA GOOB2 |
Thompson Drug, Gynecological Aid Plant chewed by women before and at the time of childbirth. Perry, F., 1952, Ethno-Botany of the Indians in the Interior of British Columbia, Museum and Art Notes 2(2):36-43., page 41 |