Plantaginaceae Plantago major L.

Common Plantain

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Disinfectant

Use documented by:
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 45

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Scientific name: Plantago major L.
USDA symbol: PLMA2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Common Plantain
Family: Plantaginaceae
Family (APG): Plantaginaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Disinfectant
Notes: Cold infusion of plant taken for 'lightning infection.'

RECRD: 91756 id: 28447

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