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Houstonia wrightii Gray
Pygmy Bluet
USDA HOWR
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Plant used as a ceremonial fumigant for 'deer infection.'
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 45
Houstonia wrightii Gray
Pygmy Bluet
USDA HOWR
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Dermatological Aid
Cold, compound infusion of plant taken and used as lotion for poison ivy rash.
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 45
Houstonia wrightii Gray
Pygmy Bluet
USDA HOWR
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Dermatological Aid
Dried, pulverized root used as dusting powder for sores on humans or livestock.
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 45
Houstonia wrightii Gray
Pygmy Bluet
USDA HOWR
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Disinfectant
Plant used as a ceremonial fumigant for 'deer infection.'
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 45
Houstonia wrightii Gray
Pygmy Bluet
USDA HOWR
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 45