SSBMI Language Department

• Munmún has a variety of medicinal uses. For example, its leaves can be boiled to make a drink for treating menstruation, stomachaches, and cramps.
• Women can also burn munmún to induce their menstrual cycles.
• Munmún can also be prepared as a remedy for c’ítok’ (poison oak), as well as a medicine used to treat headaches, toothaches, and sore muscles.
• Many Native people put munmún under their pillows to treat bad dreams.
• Both mugwort and white sagebrush have the same name in Nisenan: munmún.

Esak’ahá daak’ábe mi c’aykɨ́ɨ? (Do you want to know more?) This webpage is part of a larger initiative to share signage highlighting plants found around the Shingle Springs Rancheria and their Nisenan names.