2018 March 16 SPDS

Skullcap ( Scutellaria lateriflora L.)

• Aerial parts used in modern western  herbalism as a nervine, sedative, anxiolytic • First described in Tournefort’s The Compleat Herbal (1719) • Given current name by Linneaus in 1753 • Native American medicinal use: eyewash,  fever, emmenagogue, digestif, laxative, +  Cherokee, Miwao, Mendocino, Iriquois,  Delaware, Ojibwa (Moerman 1998)