Search for elymus repens found 8 matches:

Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Cherokee Drug (Orthopedic Aid)
Decoction used to wash swollen legs and infusion taken for "gravel."
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey 1975 Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History. Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co. (p. 31)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Cherokee Drug (Urinary Aid)
Infusion taken for "gravel" and "continence and bedwetting."
Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey 1975 Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History. Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co. (p. 31)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Anthelmintic)
Used as a worm remedy.
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 274)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Urinary Aid)
Infusion of rhizomes and stems from another plant used for thick urine.
Rousseau, Jacques 1945 Le Folklore Botanique De Caughnawaga. Contributions de l'Institut botanique l'Universite de Montreal 55:7-72 (p. 67)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Apache, White Mountain Food (Fodder)
Plant used for hay.
Reagan, Albert B. 1929 Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona. Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61. (p. 155)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Apache, White Mountain Food (Unspecified)
Seeds used for food.
Reagan, Albert B. 1929 Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona. Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61. (p. 155)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds formerly eaten.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 360)


Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Quackgrass; Poaceae
Okanagan-Colville Other (Containers)
Used under and over the food in pit cooking.
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy 1980 Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington. Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum (p. 52)