chaparral

Alternative oncology
A drought-adapted evergreen, the major component of which is nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA), which may be used to treat GI tumours, leukaemia and brain gliomas.

Herbal medicine
Chaparral was once used by Native American herbalists as an antiarthritic and antitussive (effects that have not been confirmed by modern herbalists), for diarrhoea and other GI complaints, and topically for wounds.

Toxicity
Chaparral causes cramping, nausea and vomiting.

References in periodicals archive

Shrub-steppe was characterized by juniper (Juniper osteosperma), big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), horsebrush (Tetradymia glabrata) and viscid rabbit brush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus).

Niche overlap and resource partitioning between sympatric kit foxes and coyotes in the Great Basin Desert of Western Utah

In the solonchak and salt-clay deserts of North America, the subshrubby chenopod known as greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) may be very abundant.

2 Life in the cold deserts and subdeserts

and greasewood Sarcobatus vermiculatus. Single-leaf pinyon pine Pinus monophylla and Utah juniper Juniperus osteosperma were common in our study area, but tended to be found as bands in midelevations between the two communities.

Intraseasonal variation in survival and probable causes of mortality in greater sage-grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

The different species of Atriplex are not only associated with each other but also with other relatively halophilous species such as the sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) at higher altitudes and the big greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) in areas where only the topsoil is highly saline.

4 Protected areas and biosphere reserves in the cold deserts and subdeserts

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