uses: 19561
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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19561 | 2100 | 259 | 10 | 99 | 2 | 64 | Decoction of small pieces of branches and tops used for cancer. A decoction of plant tops was used to wash the areas affected by cancer. A second decoction of branch pieces was taken internally. It made the emaciated patient get better and gain weight. This treatment was used after a 'western' doctor diagnosed the breast cancer patient as being terminal. | 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 99 |