Native Americans used the branches to make paintbrushes and the bark for its healing properties when treating fever and pain. Interestingly enough, salicin can be extracted from the willow bark and is ...

The bark, which contains a compound known as salicin (similar to aspirin), elicits anti-inflammatory properties. Native Americans were known to have chewed on willow bark as a natural pain reliever.

Once you find your favorites from this list, just check out Audubon’s native plants database to find which species are recommended for your zip code. Identifiable by their deeply ridged bark and lobed ...

Critics say the “pretendians” take positions from Native Americans, betray their students and potentially commit research fraud. UC has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the issue.

The Where There's A Willow There's a Way is a hot toddy made from winter bark tea and brandy ... likely to be served in saloons of the day should probably be credited to Native American knowledge.

Occasionally we need to be reminded that before pharmacies, cultures had to rely on native plants and animals as sources ... For example, a tea was made from the bark of peachleaf willow (Salix ...

Centuries of anti-Native American policies and colonization have upheld inequities between Native residents in Massachusetts and non-Native Americans, according to a new report that researchers ...

The vibrant yellow hue of this individual comes from a dusting of pollen, picked up while the bird foraged among the catkins, or flower clusters, of a Sitka willow ... the magenta fruit of American ...

But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, that all Native Americans were granted sweeping access to American democracy. Up until that point, Native people had ...

While this is devastating for the spruces, one species loves these conditions: the bark beetle ... to pests. Native trees like beech, oak and sycamores as well as the North American Douglas ...