Dried plant matter

Museum number:
3-27224
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3026
Description:
Ethnobotanical sample; used for kidneys, colds, cough, sedative, and car sickness; dried twigs and leaves. Sold as medicine. Native name: Te de Menta. More commonly known as Hierbabuena. The plant is about one and a half meters high and very bushy. THe flowers shed very easily. A good way to tell the useful part of this plant is to smell each part away from the flower itself. The stronger the odor the better. The plants may be used either dried or freshly picked. Uses: Good for kidneys, colds, cough, sedative, and car sickness. Dosage: Three or four tabls. per glass of how water or milk two or three times a day. See acc. envelope/
Donor:
Charles Perez Allen
Collection place:
Guaymas (city), Sonora, Mexico
Collector:
Charles Perez Allen
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:
1973
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dried plant matter, accession number 3-27224, described as Ethnobotanical sample; used for kidneys, colds, cough, sedative, and car sickness; dried twigs and leaves. Sold as medicine. Native name: Te de Menta. More commonly known as Hierbabuena. The plant is about one and a half meters high and very bushy. THe flowers shed very easily. A good way to tell the useful part of this plant is to smell each part away from the flower itself. The stronger the odor the better. The plants may be used either dried or freshly picked. Uses: Good for kidneys, colds, cough, sedative, and car sickness. Dosage: Three or four tabls. per glass of how water or milk two or three times a day. See acc. envelope/

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