Astragalus amphioxys
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| Species: | A. amphioxys
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| Astragalus amphioxys | |
Astragalus amphioxys, common name crescent milkvetch, is a plant found in the American southwest.
Uses
The Zuni use the plant medicinally. The fresh or dried root is chewed by a medicine man before sucking snakebite and poultice applied to wound. [1]
References
- ^ Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye 1980 A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388 p. 376
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