There was no record in the Phytochemicals database of any chemicals analysis for
this plant, despite its widely-reported usage in women's medicine. Apparently no
investigations have been done about its widely-observed practical ability (prepared
properly and taken for the last few weeks before childbirth) to promote easy
childbirth. One of the things that is noticeable about the ethnobotany database
mayterials is that most of the ethnobotanists have been men. But among woodland
peoples, most of the practicasl herbal medical knowledge is women's, and a great
deal of it is specifically women's medicines. Years ago (and now) knowledgeable
women do not like to talk to any men about it. Mitchella was in widespread early use
by white women settlers, and was adopted (late) in the U.S. National Formulary in- It was dropped in 1947, as the grow6th of hi-tech, hi-cost hospital childbirth
began to be encouraged in the medical industry, along with the growth of health
insurance to pay for it.
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