The folk remedies have stuck around
Merle Wagner eats nine — not eight, not 10 — gin-soaked raisins every day with glucosamine tablets to prevent arthritis.
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Oklahoma Frontier Drug Store Museum curator Mark Ekiss shows a bottle of Cannabis used as a remedy in the late 1800s at the museum in Guthrie last Wednesday. BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN
Folk remedies
Oklahoma Gardening host and producer Steve Owens shares some common medicinal plants and their uses. However, he emphasizes, medicinal plants can have adverse effects if not taken correctly.
• Purple Coneflower (Echinacea spp.): Used to treat snake bites, toothaches, heal wounds and boost the immune system.
• Bee Balm (Monarda spp.): Used to treat coughs, colds, flu, fevers, insomnia, headaches, sore throats.
• Cattail (Typha spp.): Used to treat coughs, dysentery, digestive disorders, wounds, burns.
• Yarrow (Achillea millefolium): Used to stop bleeding; as a sedative to treat burns; used to treat insect bites and as a painkiller. Contains thujone, which is toxic in large doses.
• Plains Yucca (Yucca glauca): Given to women in prolonged labor, used to reduce dandruff and baldness.
• Elderberry (Sambucus spp.): Used to treat eczema, rashes, colds, flu, fevers. Contains cyanide-producing glycosides.
• Goldenrod (Solidago spp.): Used as a diuretic and to treat kidney stones.
• Passion Flower (Passiflora spp.): Used to treat insomnia and sooth nerves.
• Selfheal (Prunella spp.): Used to treat sore throats and mouth ulcers.
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