| Uses: | | • | Juice used in cold, cough and skin diseases [55]. Plaster or poultice used for blood purification [Algonquin: 69]. | | • | Leaves, stem and roots : | Hepatic, tonic, diuretic and slightly cholagogue [Cree 74]. | | • | Leaves and roots : | Taken to promote the flow of bile in liver disease, the milky latex used as a mosquito repellent [Metis 13]. | | • | Leaves : | Decoction drunk to purify blood, to treat anemia, jaundice and against nervousness [Metis 13]. | | • | Roots : | Used as a blood medicine [Ojibwa 86]. Steeped in water with roots of Cirsium sp. and taken in confinement [Ojibwa 47]. Tea given in heart burn [Ojibwa 87]. Decoction drunk as a diuretic to clean blood stream [Cree 13]. Boiled and taken in diabetes [Dene 17]. |
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