| PLANT NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
BELIEVED CURE |
| Black Raspberry |
Fruit: purple-back Stern archers completely over the other root tip. |
General tonic and astringent properties, Dysentery |
| Cardinal Flower |
Brilliant red elongated cluster on an erect stalk |
Typhoid Fever |
| Common Nightshade |
Whitish flowers with projecting cones of yellow anthers followed by green berries turning black |
POISONOUS
Intense digestive disorders and nervous symptoms
|
| Fleabane |
Tall lanky plant with hard hairy leaves |
Respiratory distress, internal injuries and bruises. Today it is used in cough syrups |
| Flowering Dogwood |
A lovely small flowering tree with a short trunk; large white flowers in spring, bright red berries in winter |
Astringent to stop bleeding, Substitute quinine to treat malaria |
| Foxglove |
Smooth stem with clusters of yellow funnel shaped flowers |
Cardiac problems, (digitalis is a component of foxglove) |
| Indian Hemp |
Small greenish white flowers |
Intermittent and recurring fevers, Amenorrhoea, Leukorrhea and other female complaints |
| Jack-in-the-pulpit |
Curving ridged hood either green or purplish brown |
Reduce swelling from rattlesnake bite |
| Jimsonweed |
A tall, stout, smooth plant with a greenish or purplish stem, trumpet shaped flower |
Mosquito bites, a narcotic used for asthma |
| Mayapple |
Large leaf with a solitary flower, purplish under the leaf |
Purge summer diarrhea, good for mental conditions, rheumatism and liver ailments |
| Pokeweed |
A tall, large branching plant with a reddish stem and long clusters of small white flowers |
Upper respiratory infections, pharyngitis (sore throat), rheumatism and liver ailments |
| Redbud |
Short tree with a rounded spreading crown, pink flowers in the spring, with pea like pods in the fall |
Dysentery |
| Sassafras |
Aromatic tree, a shrubby appearance due to stout branches, can have as many as five different shaped leaves |
Diaphoretic (increases sweating) used to lower temperatures |
| Skunk Cabbage |
A large brownish-purple and green mottled shell like spathe; covered with tiny white flowers |
Expectorant and respiratory sedative; used in acute asthmatic attacks |
| Staghorn Sumac |
Shrub or small tree with branches and green flowers in terminal clusters. Berries are red in fall |
POISONOUS
Styptic and astringent |
| Trout Lily |
Leaves oval; flower yellowish and hanging downward |
Relieves hiccups, vomiting, hematuria and bleeding from the lower bowels |
| Verbena |
Purple flowers, leaves egg shaped, coarsely toothed. Stern has whitish hairs |
Vomiting, digestive disorders |
| Violets |
Leaves rounded or heart shaped with flower on stem from center |
Skin diseases |
