| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Aatotankiki myaamiaki 1998-2006 | Use - Medicinal | Leaves are made into a laxative. Sugar balls infused with senna, in center. |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | Use - Medicinal | Senna balls rolled in sugar eaten for strengthening the blood but too much can cause diarrhea. |
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| Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 | Habitat | S. obtusifolia (coffee weed) is a species native to eastern and western Myaamia lands (and pan-globally), found in moist woods in eastern and western Myaamia lands. S. occidentalis (septic weed), could also be the species utilized by the Myaamia, and is a native of the Old World tropics but naturalized in eastern and western Myaamia lands in sandy and alluvial soils along streams and disturbed areas. |
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| Steyermark, J.A. 1963 | Leaves of Senna obtusifolia are believed to possess the purgative qualities that are associated with the pharmaceutical drug senna, and leaves of Senna occidentalis are used to make an ointment used as a remedy for ringworm and other skin problems. |
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| Aatotankiki myaamiaki 1998-2006 | Effie Walker Brown (Pimyotahmah) relayed that in the Myaamia tradition, medicinal knowledge was passed on orally to the opposite sex child: therefore Effie and great aunt Myrtle Walker Fuller (Shegoquah) were not taught the medicinal knowledge of their mother, Rebecca Stitt Walker, a well know mid-wife and medicine woman in Lincolnville, Oklahoma at the turn of the century. Rebecca was the daughter of Mary Benjamin Stitt (Kepahkakasequah) who was relocated from Indiana to Kansas. Effie and her sister reportedly learned Myaamia herbal medicine by sneaking around the woods as Rebecca foraged and taught her sons this knowledge. |
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| Coulter, S. 1932 | Dried leaflets, in small doses 2 gm has physiological action as a laxative, purgative, and cholagogue, also increasing the flow of bile. |