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Curly Gumweed
Grindelia squarrosa
43.7834, -102.369
Field Notes
Description:
a medicinal plant of the plains Indians. It is used for bronchial problems
Notes:
American Indians used the gummy secretions of curlycup gumweed to relieve asthma, bronchitis, and colic. Pawnee Indians boiled leaves and flowering tops to treat saddle sores and raw skin. Today, medicinal uses include treatment of bronchial spasm, whooping cough, asthma, and rashes caused by poison ivy. Curlycup gumweed extract is valuable as a stimulant, sedative, astringent, purgative, emetic, diuretic, antiseptic, and disinfectant.
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PublishedJune 22, 2011
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