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Osha (Ligusticum porteri) is a perennial herb used for its medicinal properties. Osha grows in parts of the Rocky Mountains especially in the North American Southwest. White Goat Wilderness Area, Alberta, Canada Longs Peak of the Rocky Mountains as depicted on the Colorado state quarter The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ...

Osha is traditionally used by indigenous American peoples and Mexicans as a medicine and/or in rituals (e.g. in Jicarilla culture, medicine men smoke osha with tobacco or other plants in religious ceremonies, and as a medicine, osha is made into a tea to soothe sore throats). Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and to the Southern Athabaskan language they speak. ... Among Native Americans and other traditional peoples as far back as Paleolithic times, a person believed to possess supernatural healing powers. ...

Synonymy

Osha is also known by the following names:

• Osha root, Porter’s Lovage, Lovage, Wild Lovage, Porter's Wild Lovage, Loveroot, Porter’s Ligusticum, Bear Medicine, Bear Root, Colorado cough root, Indian Root, Indian Parsley, Wild Parsley, Mountain Ginseng, Mountain Carrot, Nipo, Empress Of The Dark Forest, Chuchupate, Chuchupati, Chuchupaste

In the Jicarilla language, osha is called ha’ich’idéé. Jicarilla matron photographed by Edward S. Curtis, 1907 Jicarilla Apache refers to an Apache people currently living in New Mexico and to the Southern Athabaskan language they speak. ...

Links

• Osha Root
• Research to Determine Osha’s Economic Potential as aSustainable Agricultural Crop