Editing Datura wrightii (section)

===Medicinal===
Among the [[Zuni people]], the powdered root is given as an [[anesthetic]] and a [[narcotic]] for surgery. They also apply a [[poultice]] of root and flower meal applied to wounds to promote healing.<ref>Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 46, 48)</ref> The Zuni used ''Datura'' as a way to render patients [[Unconsciousness|unconscious]] while broken bones were set.<ref>{{cite book |author=Turner, Matt W. |title=Remarkable Plants of Texas: Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-292-71851-7 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIXpf4RRA1IC&pg=PA209}}</ref>