| Uses: | | • | Leaves, roots and fruits : | Mixed with boiling water and used as a blood purifier and blood-building agent [Mi'kmaq 62]. | | • | Leaves or roots : | Tea given as a gargle for gum problems, or used in diarrhoea or dysentery, weakness of the intestines, infections of urinary organs, or to prevent night sweats [Mi'kmaq 62]. | | • | Fruits : | Heart medicine [Dene 17]. | | • | Runners : | Boiled with 'Petasites sagittatus and 'Pyrola asarifolia and drunk as a medicine [Dene 17]. |
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