Deep Puncture Wound

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 flavoring agent. Called also wintergreen oil(Source)
  • 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
  • Pueraria montana
  • found in waste ground
  • active chemical ingredient is daidzein(Source)
    • an isoflavone C15H10O4 found chiefly in legumes and especially soybeans(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

  • Corylus americana
  • found in thickets




  • active chemical ingredient is Caffeic-acid(Source)

      • Caffeic-acid: :  a yellow crystalline acid C9H8O4 obtained by hydrolysis of chlorogenic acid(Source)




    • 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)



    • tea from roots helps diarrhea, indigestion, bruises, etc 

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