title: Native American drug therapy: United States and Canada.
abstract: The more than one hundred different Native American Indian cultures of the United States and Canada developed a rich pharmacopoeia before contact with Europeans began in the fifteenth century. Together these Native American groups contributed 220 indigenous drugs to "The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America". Some of these remedies are used today in North America, Europe and elsewhere.
authors.affiliation: JKBdeinker@aol.com
authors.forename: John K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Borchardt
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D020900:Echinacea; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000266:history; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000266:history; D036801:Parturition / Q000187:drug effects; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic / Q000266:history; D008517:Phytotherapy / Q000266:history; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012067:Religion; D014481:United States