Hold me tight and... Native uses of dodder. Note that the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context. Cuscuta glomerata was the species used by the Pawnee. To stop nosebleed, the stems of Cuscuta californica were chewed by the Kawaiisu and the masticated wad or just the juice of it was stuffed into the nostrils, or they were dried, powdered and insufflated. The seeds of Cuscuta species were parched by the N