Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
Tall Grass Prairie and Eastern Deciduous Forest
Habitat: Waste areas, open woodlands
Season: June-September
Active Chemical Ingredient: Adenosin
Chemical structure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_reuptake_inhibitor
Uses: Root Poultice soothes burns, boils, and rashes
English Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
Eastern Deciduous Forest, Tall Grass Prairie
Habitat: fields, waste areas
Season: May-October
Active chemical ingredient: Aucubin
Used for: treat frostbite, rattlesnake bites, diarrhea, fever, coughing, infections, inflammation, stop bleeding, burns, insect bites, blisters, dermatitis, rope burn
Preparation: fresh leaves for frostbite, roots used for snake bites; decoction of roots for diarrhea, fever, cough; leaf and seed extract (antibacterial); hot-leaf poultice for inflammations and infections; decoction of dried leaves for bleeding; crushed fresh leaves, salve, cream, or poultice for burns, insect bites, blisters, dermatitis, chewed fresh leaf blended with water and applied to skin for rope burn
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