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Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Leaves or root 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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Emetic
Leaves or root 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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Misc. Disease Remedy
Plant used for chickenpox and poultice of plant used for toothaches.
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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Panacea
Bark and dried berries used as '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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Toothache Remedy
Poultice of heated root applied for toothache.
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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Food, Dried Food
Berries dried and boiled with clay, sugar or wild potatoes.
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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Food, Fruit
Berries eaten raw or boiled with clay.
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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Other, Ceremonial Items
Stem used to make Evilway big hoop.
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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Navajo, Ramah Other, Ceremonial Items
Thorn ash used for Evilway blackening.
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 42
Lycium torreyi Gray
Squawthorn
USDA LYTO
Tubatulabal Food, Fruit
Berries used extensively for food.
Voegelin, Ermine W., 1938, Tubatulabal Ethnography, Anthropological Records 2(1):1-84, page 15