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.
Tall Grass Prairie
Kudzu
Kudzu
- Pueraria montana
- found in waste ground
- active chemical ingredient is daidzein(Source)
- root tea used for headaches, diarrhea, dysentery, acute intestinal obstruction, gastroenteritis, deafness
- stem poulticed for sores, swellings, mastitis; tea gargled for sore throats(Peterson Field Guide)
Deciduous and Prairie:
American Hazelnut
active chemical ingredient is Caffeic-acid(Source)
American Hazelnut
- Corylus americana
- found in thickets
- Cherokee drank bark tea for hives, fevers; astringent, also emetic
- Bark poultice used to close wounds and cuts and to treat tumors, old sores, and skin cancers(Peterson Field Guide)
Both
Queen Anne's Lace
- Daucus carota(Sources all but labeled)
- found in north america
- active chemical ingredient is Palmitic-acid
- Palmitic-acid: a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 3 2 O 2,obtained by hydrolysis from palm oil and natural fats, in which it occurs as the glyceride, and from spermaceti: used in the manufacture of soap.(Source)
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- tea from roots helps diarrhea, indigestion, bruises, etc
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