🪶Indigenous / Native American
Milkweed
Asclepias syriaca
About Milkweed
Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Respiratory Issues, Warts, and Edema. The seeds are the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds. This species is native to southern Canada and of much of the conterminous eastern U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. It grows in sandy soils and other kinds of soils in sunny areas. It was one of the earliest North American...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Seeds · internal