Burns From Fire

Deciduous and Tall Grass Prairie

Red Clover

• Trifolium pratense
• Found in Fields or Roadsides, it is a weed
•  Active Chemical Ingredient is genistein an oestrogen that occurs naturally in soya beans and is believed to inhibit the growth of certain  tumours(Source)
  

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• A wash made of the flowering tops are used for athlete's foot, sores, burns, and ulcers

Wild Quinine

• Parthenium integrifolium
• Found in prairie's, rock outcrops, & roadsides
• Active chemical ingredient is quinine
• Quinine: a white, bitter, slightly water-soluble alkaloid, C 2 0 H 2 4 N 2 O 2,having needlelike crystals, obtained from cinchona bark: used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of resistant forms of malaria.

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• Use poultice with fresh leaves on burns. Flowering tops used for "intermittent fevers"(like malaria). Roots used as diuretic for kidney and bladder ailments, gonorrhea.(Peterson Feild Guide)

Asiatic Dayflower

• Commelina communis
• found in waste places
• active chemical ingredeint is P-coumaric-acid(Source)
• one of a series of aromatic acids, related to cinnamic acid, the mostimportant of which is a white crystalline substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H,obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also producedartificially(Source)

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• leaf tea gargled for sore throats
• roots used for fevers
• leaves were eaten as greens, also reduces pain, used for lung ailments(Peterson Field Guide)

Deciduous
Sweet or Black Birch Tree

• Betula lenta
• Found in rich woods
• Active chemical ingredient is methyl salicylate(Source)
• methyl salicylate: methyl salicylate a natural or synthetic oil with a characteristic wintergreen odor and taste; used as a counterirritant in ointments or liniments for muscle pain and  also as a flavoring agent. Called also wintergreen oil(Source)

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• Used for fragrance, in bark tea for fevers, stomachaches, lung ailments, twig tea for fever. to alleviate pain or sore muscles, the oil is applied.