Artist's rendering of William Clark treating Sacagawea with bloodletting.

Sacagawea's Healing Techniques
In ways large and small, Sacagawea proved an asset to the expedition. Throughout their travels, she supplemented the men's diets with wild artichokes and other edible plants she found and dug up. All of these were used as food and sometimes, as medicine.

Lewis thought that "our epicures would admire" the root called the white apple. "It would serve them in their ragouts and gravies instead of the truffles morella."