uses: 12992
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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12992 | 1374 | 259 | 10 | 207 | 2 | 46 | Decoction of roots and sumac roots taken for syphilis. This medicine was considered very poisonous and had to be taken with fish head soup to counteract the poison. One informant who was treated with this medicine recovered from syphilis but, afterwards, could never have children. | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 207 |