a medicinal plant of the plains Indians. It is used for
bronchial problems American Indians used the gummy secretions of
curlycup gumweed to relieve asthma, bronchitis, and colic.
Pawnee Indians boiled leaves and flowering tops to treat saddle
sores and raw skin. Today, medicinal uses include treatment of
bronchial spasm, whooping cough, asthma, and rashes caused by
poison ivy. Curlycup gumweed extract is valuable as a stimulant,
sedative, astringent, purgative, emetic, diuretic, antiseptic,
and disinfectant.