English Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
Eastern Deciduous Forest and Tall Grass Prairie
Habitat: fields, waste areas
Season: May-October
Active chemical ingredient: Aucubin
Chemical structure:
Uses: 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
Common Juniper (Juniperus communis)
Tall Grass Prairie and Eastern Deciduous Forest
Habitat: meadows, fields, cliffs, rocky areas, roadsides
Season: late winter into early spring -January through April. Some junipers will have a second bloom time that occurs in the fall and can last from September though December
Active chemical ingredient: alpha selinene
Chemical structure:
Uses: berries rubbed on wounds used for treating snake bites, wounds, pain in joints, fungal infection
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Tall Grass Prairie
Habitat: glades, prairies, rocky woods
Season: June-September
Active chemical ingredient: polyacetylenes
Chemical structure:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2000/popular.html
Uses: treat snake bites
Preparation: chewed, poultice
Resources: Rattlesnake Master. (n.d.). Retrieved September 6, 2015
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