uses: 5199
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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5199 | 395 | 259 | 10 | 169 | 2 | 42 | Plant used as a wash for colds, especially for babies and for chickenpox, to help the itching. The plant could also be boiled and the steam used for colds. The patient would lie in the steam while he was covered with a blanket. | 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 169 |