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Larkspur

Ital Katz
Latin Name: 
Delphinium glaucum
Categories: 
Medicine
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Flowering Plants
Uses: 
Medicine
As medicine
The whole larkspur plant, purple in color, is used to make a tea for washing people's hair when they have lice. The whole plant from the ground up is chopped and made into a tea.
Source: Andre, Alestine, Nan t'aih nakwits'inahtsìh (The Land Gives Us Strength) (2006)   
 

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