The Yavapai at McDowell, Ariz., who now use the leaves and twigs of the creosote bush (? Larrea glutinosa) to steam lying-in women four days after childbirth, and also drink a decoction of the leaves as a remedy for internal chill, say that they used juniper (tjóka) for these purposes as long as they lived in the mountains.
Library · Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, 1916
Footnote on juniper: the creosote bush among the Yavapai
Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington and Barbara Freire-Marreco, p. 40, note 2. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.