Native American Herbal Remedies

Bronchitis

Creosote Bush. A tea of the leaves was used for bronchial and other respiratory problems.

Pleurisy Root. The Natchez drank a tea of the boiled roots as a remedy for pneumonia and was later used to promote the expulsion of phlegm,

Wormwood. The Yokia Indians of Mendocino County used a tea of the boiled leaves of a local species of wormwood to cure bronchitis.

 

BURNS

Yellow-Spined Thistle. The Kiowa Indians boiled yellow-spined thistle blossoms and applied the resulting liquid to burns and skin sores.

 

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