Euphorbia polycarpa

 Euphorbia polycarpa (rattlesnake weed, small-seed sandmat) (golondrina)

Euphorbiaceae

  • Dos nombres kumiai distintos dados a la planta describen el estado en el que crece: mat jnak singnifica "collar de tierra" y mat yiu significa "ojos de tierra", porque las flores pequeñas se parecen a los ojos.
  • Celia S. y Virginia M. usan una infusión hecha de las hojas de la planta para curar las heridas y aliviar el dolor de las mordeduras y picaduras de insectos, como hormigas, abejas y escorpiones.
  • Emilia y Aurora C. a veces aplican el líquido lechoso directamente en el área afectada, sin embargo esto puee ser perjudicial para la piel.
  • Medicine:  the green leaves were mashed, salt and oil added, and the mixture applied as a poultic to a swollen area. The plant was also used in a remedy for toothache or heart pain. Poison: the plant, cooked with the liver of a certain puffer fish, cinnamon and salt, was used on the occasion to poison a man who had killed two others. "People of the Desert and Sea, Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. Richard Stepgen Felger and Mary Beck Moser".

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