Editing Clinopodium douglasii (section)

== Uses ==

This species was used by native groups throughout its range of occurrence, from Southern California to western British Columbia, both as a beverage and a medicine.<ref name="turner-bell-1971"/><ref name="moerman-1998"/> The most widespread use was as a mint-flavored tea consumed as a beverage,<ref name="moerman-1998"/><ref name="zenk-1976">{{cite thesis |last = Zenk| first = Henry| title = Contributions to Tualatin ethnography: Subsistence and ethnobiology| location = Portland, OR| date = 1976|degree= MS |chapter= |publisher = Portland State University| docket= |oclc= |access-date = | url = https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3281&context=open_access_etds| page = (p. 86)}}</ref><ref name="hall-1991">{{Cite book| publisher = Words and Pictures Unlimited.| isbn = 9780961988616| last = Hall| first = Roberta L| title = The Coquille Indians: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow| date = 1991| page = (p. 42)}}</ref><ref name="phillips-2017">{{Cite book| publisher = OSU Press| isbn = 9780870718533| last = Phillips| first = Patricia Whereat| title = Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians| location = Corvallis, OR| date = 2017| page = (p. 105)| ol = 17628544W}}</ref> a use that was taken up by non-native settlers as well.<ref name="weigand-2002"/><ref name="turner-2018"/> The herb was also used as a medicine, particularly as a treatment for [[common cold|colds]] and [[fever]]s, for [[abdominal pain]] and [[colic]], and as a "[[Detoxification (alternative medicine)|blood purifier]]" or as "good for the [[kidneys]]".<ref name="moerman-1998"/><ref name="hall-1991"/> Prepared in the form of a strong [[decoction]] or infused in goat's milk, yerba buena was used as an [[anthelmintic]] by the [[Rumsen people|Rumsen]] and Mutsen [[Ohlone]] and the [[Chumash people|Chumash]], as well as by [[Mission Indians]] and [[Californio]]s in the [[Central Coast (California)|Central Coast]] area of California.<ref name="bard-1894">{{Cite journal| volume = 9| issue = 8| pages = 287–312 (p. 290)| last = Bard| first = Cephas L.| title = A Contribution to the History of Medicine in Southern California| journal = Southern California Practitioner| date = 1894| url = https://archive.org/details/southcalif09losa/page/n301/mode/1up}} [Republished as: {{Cite journal| last = Bard| first = Cephas L.|title = Lost and Found: A Contribution to the History of Medicine in Southern California| volume = 26| issue = 1| pages = 95–108 (p. 97)| journal = Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology| date = 2006| url = https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72p336fw| jstor = 27825825}}]</ref><ref name="garriga-1978">{{Cite book| publisher = Archives of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles & Plantin Press| last = Garriga| first = Andrew| others = Francis J. Weber (ed.)| title = Andrew Garriga's Compilation of Herbs & Remedies Used by the Indians & Spanish Californians: Together with Some Remedies of His Own Experience| date = 1978| lccn = 72077298 | page = 42}}</ref><ref name="bocek-1984">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1007/BF02858839| volume = 38| issue = 2| pages = 240–255 (p. 253)| last = Bocek| first = Barbara R.| title = Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, based on collections by John P. Harrington| journal = Economic Botany| date = 1984| jstor = 4254616}}</ref><ref name="walker-hudson-1993">{{Cite book| publisher = Malki Museum Press| isbn = 9780939046331| last1 = Walker| first1 = Phillip L.| last2 = Hudson| first2 = Travis| title = Chumash Healing: Changing Health and Medical Practices in an American Indian Society| location = Banning, CA| date = 1993}}</ref><ref name="timbrook-2007">{{Cite book| publisher = Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History & Heyday Books| isbn = 9781597140485| last = Timbrook| first = Janice| title = Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California| location = Santa Barbara & Berkeley, CA| series = (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monograph 5)| date = 2007| page = 199-200}}</ref> The [[Hupa|Hoopa]] and [[Karok]] peoples are reported to have sometimes worn vines of the plant around their neck or in their hair as a fragrance,<ref name="gifford-1952">{{Cite journal| volume = 13| issue = 6| pages = (p. 369)| last1 = Schenck| first1 = Sara M| last2 = Gifford| first2 = Edward Winslow| title = Karok ethnobotany| journal = Anthropological Records| date = 1952| url = https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar013-007.pdf}}</ref><ref name="goddard-1903">{{Cite book| publisher = University of California Press| last = Goddard| first = Pliny Earle| title = Life and culture of the Hupa| location = Berkeley| series = University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology| date = 1903| pages = (p. 20)| url = http://archive.org/details/cu31924104079433}}</ref> while native people of the [[Oregon coast]] are said to have used the aromatic plant to disguise their scent when hunting.<ref name="haskin-1977">{{Cite book| publisher = Dover Publications| isbn = 9780486234694| last = Haskin| first = Leslie L.| title = Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast| location = New York| date = 1977| ol = 5996190M| page = (p. 307)| edition=2nd}}</ref>