Burns from oil


Tall Grass Prairie: 

Cattail (Typha latifolia)

  • down used as dressing to pack burns
  • active ingredient: 

Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica)
  • pain reliever
  • active ingredient: acetic salicylic acid 




Eastern Deciduous forest

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
  • poultice of leaves applied to burns
  • active ingredient: lawsone
  • found in eastern deciduous forest

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