English

meadow rue

Scientific Name

Thalictrum spp

Arapaho

Translation of the Arapaho

‘horse medicine’

Meadow rue and the Arapaho

Drug: veterinary. Kroeber reports that the plant of this name “is given internally to a sick horse, or is rubbed on the nose of a tired horse to refresh it.” Jospeh Grinnell identifies the above plant as being used by the Cheyenne, in the form of a powder, to make a horse “spirited, long-winded, and enduring.” The Cheyenne name for the plant matches the Arapaho name: “horse medicine.”