| Uses: | | • | Bark : | Hot drink together with wild ginger root, bark of sassafras roots, and rhizomes of sweet flag, taken for cold, cough, and pulmonary troubles [Ojibwa 85]. Tea drunk for worms [Mi'kmaq 62]. Used to treat quinsy and sore throat [Ojibwa 87]. | | • | Roots : | Decoction used to treat sore throat [Ojibwa 47]. | | • | Fruits : | Tea drunk to treat sore throat, and as a spray on the chest to cool and relieve congestion in bronchitis [Ojibwa 87]. |
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