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Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Curlytop Knotweed
USDA POLA4
Apache, White Mountain Drug, Unspecified
Plant used for medicinal purposes.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 159
Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Curlytop Knotweed
USDA POLA4
Keres, Western Drug, Gastrointestinal Aid
Infusion of plant taken for stomach trouble.
Swank, George R., 1932, The Ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 62
Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Curlytop Knotweed
USDA POLA4
Navajo, Ramah Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Cold infusion of plant used as 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 23, 24
Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Curlytop Knotweed
USDA POLA4
Potawatomi Drug, Febrifuge
Infusion of whole plant used for fever.
Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 72
Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Curlytop Knotweed
USDA POLA4
Zuni Drug, Cathartic
Decoction of plant taken as an emetic and purgative.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 58
Polygonum lapathifolium L.
Curlytop Knotweed
USDA POLA4
Zuni Drug, Emetic
Decoction of root taken as an emetic and purgative.
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 58