| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | Use - Medicinal | The root was used as a physic or purgative: "they took the May apple root and pounded it up, and then soaked it out--it was always a liquid form, of course, when they used it." "May apple roots are still being used. There were still people who practiced herbal medicine [in his generation]", although he or no one he knew ever used it. "We knew that the used it, because we sometimes gathered it, and sold the root to people who did used it". |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | Use - Food | Fruits were eaten [in summer]. |
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| Lamb, E.W., Shultz, L.W. 1964 | Use - Medicinal | Mayapple root was used for stomach disorders. |
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| Rafert, S. 1996 | Use - Food | Used as a snack food when in the woods. |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | Use - Medicinal | Lyman Mongosa described preparing a liquid for a woman who was given up by doctors, in the early 1930s. His medicine, he felt, saved her . . . and it may have been prepared from mayapple. |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | Use - Food | Fruit is edible when ripe, soft and yellow. |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | Use - Food | Fruits eaten raw or made into preserves. |
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| Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 | Habitat | Occurs in moist woods throughout eastern and western Myaamia lands. |
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| Coulter, S. 1932 | Dried rhizome and roots in small doses 0.3-1.0cc can be used to increase flow of bile, and is a slow but powerful cathartic, emetic, and can be poisonous in too large a dose. In large doses it can cause violent purging with profuse watery stools, hemorrhaging to internal organs and depression of central nervous system. |
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| Vogel, V.J. 1970 | The mayapple root can be used as a purgative as well as many other uses. |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | "mayapple, kit-tak-may-ne" |