Snake Bite

Deciduous:

Black Eyed Susan

• Rudbeckia hirta
• Found in fields, road sides, and waste places
• active chemical ingredient is Equine(Source)
• The chemical structure of an equine hematoside, which contained an ester group and comprised 72% of the total erythrocyte gangliosides, was determined by means of nondestructive and destructive procedures(Source)

• External wash with root tea for snake bites, sores, and swelling. root juice for earaches, and tea for worms and cold(Peterson Field Guide)

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

Purple Cone Flower

• Echinacea angustifolia
• Found in prairies
• active chemical ingredient is Echinacoside(Source)
• Echinacoside: (organic chemistry) A caffeic acid glycoside from the phenylpropanoid class.(Source)

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• Root(chewed or tea) is used for snakebites, spider bites, cancers, toothaches, burns, hard-to-heal sores, and wounds, colds, and the flu(Peterson Field 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)