Diarrhea

Diarrhea

Lead Plant

Tall Grass Prairie and Eastern Deciduous Forest

Genus and Species: Amorpha canescens

Habitat: black soil prairies, sand prairies, gravel prairies, hill prairies, limestone glades, open woodlands

Seasons: native warm season; spring-summer

Active Chemical Ingredient and Structure:  Germacrene D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germacrene Uses of Specimen:  aids diarrhea with tea leaves help aid open wounds such as axe wound and bear attack

Preparation: tea, rub leaves

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

 NaturalMedicineFacts.info. (n.d.). Retrieved September 6, 2015, from http://www.naturalmedicinefacts.info/

Amorpha canescens Lead Plant PFAF Plant Database. (n.d.). Retrieved September 7, 2015, from http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Amorpha canescens

Diarrhea

Cardinal flower

Tall Grass Prairie and Eastern Deciduous Forest

Genus and Species: Lobelia cardinalis

Habitat: moist healthy soil across US, streambanks

Seasons: July to September

Active Chemical Ingredient and Structure:  lobeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobeline Uses of Specimen:  root or leaf tea to treat diarrhea and constipation and toothache root tea for stomach troubles and to expel worms root tea for fevers and colds topical root tea for hard-to-heal sores leaf poultice for headaches Preparation: tea

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

 NaturalMedicineFacts.info. (n.d.). Retrieved September 6, 2015, from http://www.naturalmedicinefacts.info/

Lobelia cardinalis. (n.d.). Retrieved September 7, 2015, from http://medplant.nmsu.edu/cardinalis.shtm