🪶Indigenous / Native American
Indian Pipe
Monotropa uniflora
About Indian Pipe
Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Pain, Anxiety, Fever, and Nerve Support. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant (or ghost pipe), Indian pipe or corpse plant, is a herbaceous perennial plant native to temperate regions of Udmurtiya in European Russia, Asia, North America and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas. It was formerly classified in the family Monotropaceae; however, it has now been included within the Ericaceae. It is generally scarce or rare in occurrence.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal