Elvira Cobos, recorder, 1975
Item — Box: 2, CD: 172
Scope and Contents
Annie Gallegos, b. 1921, Santa Cruz, NM. 1. Datos personales (Annie born in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, July 26, 1921, lived all her life there, married, one daughter, three grandchildren); 2. Remedios de la gente, remedios de la casa, yerbas (cures, herbs, medicine, illness, ruda, rue use for headaches, dry leaves ground, mixed with nuez, nutmeg and camphor; placed on temples, also stamps from small bags of Bull Durham tobacco used for headaches); 3. Frijol para aire (pinto bean cut in half, for aire in the eyes, each half placed with little saliva on temples, settles twitching nerves around eye sockets; tanser used for stomach ache, ulcers, estafiate used as relaxant); 4. Nombres de remedios (at home she has plumajillo, tanser, verbena, cola de caballo, coyaye, jediondilla, cana agria, osha, inmoral, and others. Jediondilla for rheumatism, cana agria for pyorrhea, osha has many used, including to scare away snakes, hate smell); 5. Mastranzo (is a round leaved mint, cooking and cure stomach ache, also relaxant and for attack of St. Vitus dance; women use it as a cleanser after giving birth to a child, childbirth, medicine); 6. Anil del muerto (wild sunflower used for stomach disorders, Annie used only the green leaves not the flowers, she mentions dandelions, lengua de vaca, known as chicoria in Southern Colorado; poleo, yerba buena, and cilantro); 7. Coyaye (escoba de la vibora, used as a cleanser, douche, women, also for rheumatism, popotillo or Mormon Tea for bladder and kidney infections); 8. Azafran (uses petals of the sunflower for measles, uses alucema with anise and sweetened with piloncillo to cure mucus in infant new born, children, heatlh); 9. Romero (rosemary, as fumigant, kitchen smells, as cleaser, manzanilla used as relaxant, as tea); 10. Contrayerba (root grated, mixed with rue, ruda, as tea to cure diarrhea); 11. Paguey (medicinal herbs, used to control diarrha; cilantro used in cooking to flavor green beans, empanaditas de carne, etc. food, cooking); 12. Cascara de albercoque (bark of apricot tree used to preserve youth, heath, longevity; almond of apricot stone rich in vitamin E; cuira bark of the juniper tree, capulin berries, chokechery, for jelly, wine. When asked, she said cizana, tumbleweed, not used as a remedy); 13. Sauco (eldeberry used for jelly, and for the heart, people can knock out a witch by hitting her with a sauco shrurb stick, superstition); 14. Cebolla (onion used to make a plaster on person's back or chest for pains, pneumonia, sliced potatoes in vinegar and salt placed on temples and forehead for fever); 15. Habas (horse beans, when dry made into tea for tuberculosis, betabeles, sugar beets have iron for blood, garlic controls high blood pressure); 16. Vinagre (cider vinegar to rinse mouth and gargle, apple cider cleans out mucus in throat, she also uses miel mejicana or corn syrup and miel virgen or honey, said latter becoming scare); 17. Maiz (in Santa Cruz she said people use corn tassel and seeds of pumpkin in drink for bladder trouble, urinating); 18. Rose de Castilla (common rose, petals ground when dry used for mouth diseases, champes or rose hip gathered for jelly, cactus flowers also used for jelly, same will clean the lungs or bofes; a friend sends Annie a particular cactus flower from Brownsville, Texas); 19. Varas de San Jose (hollyhock; alegria or cockspur for the liver; a jar of alegria tea placed in window, color will make you feel joyful; cana agria); 20. Remedios en casa (Annie has many home remedies in her house, puts them in cellophane transparent bags with labels; mentions punche mejicano, native tobacco, and canela, cinnamon); 21. Engengible (ginger for flatulence or gas; mentions alfalfa tea for rheumatism, need to drink it every day; says escobas de ponil used only for brooms not as herb); 22. Chamiso pardo (purple sage or chamiso jediondo, leaves boiled for tea and as a bath, belongs to same family as estafiate and lengua de la suegra).
Dates
- 1975
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)
Creator
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu