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 | | Chickasaw shamans chewed the root, blew on their hands and then picked up rattlers without injury, hence "Rattlesnake master." Its roots valued by Native Americans for medicinal uses: diuretic, stimulant, and to cure venereal disease, impotence and joint inflammation. |
 | | Named "Joe Pye weed" after a Native American medicine man who used the plant in New England to cure typhus, typhus being named "jopi." Meskwaki men "nibbled (Joe Pye weed) when speaking to women when they are in the wooing mood." This had the power of "fetching" women. |
 | | Euphorbia was named by King Juba II of ancient Numidia about 2000 years ago in honor of his doctor, Euphorbus. |
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