Leaves (kacal). Make tea and drink for the blood. Mix with mountain balm and make a wash for sores. Worm wood is pounded up when green and a drink and bath are made of it for the stomach.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Make tea and drink for the blood. Mix with mountain balm and make a wash for sores. Worm wood is pounded up when green and a drink and bath are made of it for the stomach.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
S.A. Barrett field notes, 1907, p. 96: John Fullweider, informant.