Asteraceae Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt.

Louisiana Sagewort

Okanagan-Colville - Drug, Carminative

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 78

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Scientific name: Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt.
USDA symbol: ARLUL2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Louisiana Sagewort
Family: Asteraceae
Family (APG): Asteraceae
Native American Tribe: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Carminative
Notes: Infusion of plant taken and splashed on the body during sweatbathing to 'clear his wind.'

RECRD: 12432 id: 5408

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