Fungus infection

EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST

COMMON NAME: Trumpet Creeper

GENUS AND SPECIES NAME: Campsis radicans

Season: warm weather beginning in summer

Habitat: open woodlands, woodland edges, thickets, gravelly seeps, riverbanks, fields

Use: helps with irritated stomach linings, stomach flu

Preparation:  prepare tea or poultice

Active Chemical: aucubin

TALL GRASS PRAIRIE AND EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST

COMMON NAME: Joe-pye weed

GENUS AND SPECIES NAME: Eupatorium purpureum

Season: July to September

Habitat: wooded slopes, wet meadows and thickets, stream margins

Use: Infection: teas of roots or tops used as a diuretic, root tea used for diarrhea, tea used as blood purifier and prevents infection-open wounds, tea used to treat frostbite, tea used for swelling and sore throat, and kidney ailments

Preparation: can make root or flower tea. To make root tea, steep oz of dried and crushed root into 1 pint of boiling water for thirty minutes and drink half a cup at a time. To make flower tea, steep 1teaspoon of dried flower into 8oz of boiling water for ten minutes. 

Active Chemical: Eupatorin

Chemical Structure: C18H16O7

TALL GRASS PRAIRIE

COMMON NAME: Phlox

GENUS AND SPECIES NAME: Phlox paniculata

Season: Spring

Habitat: open woods, thickets, meadows, moist roadsides, woodlands

Use: tea for constipation and diarrhea, topical tea for blisters, poison ivy, sunburn and fungus infection

Preparation: Create a topical tea to treat the fungus infection

Active ingredient: phenylethanol

 Foster, Steven, (2014). Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin

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