uses: 37811
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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37811 | 3658 | 27 | 34 | 12 | 2 | 8 | Berries, froth or jelly eaten to reduce injury from mosquito bites. The berries were ripe in June and were eaten at this time to reduce injury from mosquito bites: they seem apparently to feel that the occurrence of berries and mosquitoes simultaneously was a divine indication that one was an antidote for the other. | Hocking, George M., 1949, From Pokeroot to Penicillin, The Rocky Mountain Druggist, November 1949. Pages 12, 38., page 12 |